Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France

di Eliza Jane Smith (Autore)

Lexington Books, 2023

Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France applies a sociolinguistic approach to the representation of slang in French literature and dictionaries to reveal the ways in which upper-class writers, lexicographers, literary critics, and bourgeois readers participated in a sociolinguistic concept the author refers to as “literary slumming”, or the appropriation of lower-class and criminal language and culture. Through an analysis of spoken and embodied manifestations of the anti-language of slang in the works of Eugène François Vidocq, Honoré de Balzac, Eugène Sue, Victor Hugo, the Goncourt Brothers, and Émile Zola, Literary Slumming argues that the nineteenth-century French literary discourse on slang led to the emergence of this sociolinguistic phenomenon that prioritized lower-class and criminal life and culture in a way that ultimately expanded class boundaries and increased visibility and agency for minorities within the public sphere.

• Autore: Eliza Jane Smith
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 298 p.
• Dimensioni: 223 x 154 mm
• Peso: 472 gr.
• EAN: 9781793621160

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