{"product_id":"literary-slumming-slang-and-class-in-nineteenth-century-france-9781793621146","title":"Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Literary Slumming in Nineteenth-Century France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue: Slang as Premodern Anti-Language \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Slang as Criminal Code \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Slang as Embodied Language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Slang as Language Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Slang as the Language of Misery \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Slang as the Language of Parisians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Slang as the Language of Whores \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Literary Slumming Across Cultures \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042644951383,"sku":"9781793621146","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793621146.jpg?v=1750954991","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literary-slumming-slang-and-class-in-nineteenth-century-france-9781793621146","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}