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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foote, Stephanie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, New Hampshire : University of New Hampshire Press, [2014]
Series:Becoming modern.
Subjects:
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Social classes > United States > History.
Realism in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Table of 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.