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Author:

Foote, Stephanie, author.

Title:

The parvenu's plot : gender, culture, and class in the age of realism / Stephanie Foote.

Publisher:

University of New Hampshire Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 248 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Social classes--United States--History.
Realism in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Literatur.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Geschlechterrolle.
Soziale Klasse.
American fiction.
Gender identity in literature.
Realism in literature.
Social classes.
Social classes in literature.
United States.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Signs taken for blunders -- Mrs. Newlyrich on the threshold: the business of etiquette manuals -- An archive of faux pas: reading up on print culture -- Henry James and the parvenus: reading taste in the spoils of Poynton -- Above oneself: Edith Wharton and the arrivistes -- The gender of the parvenu -- Epilogue: The parvenu's plot.

Series:

Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies

ISBN:

1611686814 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781611686814 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1611686806 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611686807 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)877371439

LCCN:

2014015651

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)