The bourgeois citizen in nineteenth-century France : gender, sociability, and the uses of emulation /
This volume analyses the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Focusing on bourgeois men and on their voluntary associations, it addresses the construction of class and gender identities.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©1999.
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| Series: | Oxford historical monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This volume analyses the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Focusing on bourgeois men and on their voluntary associations, it addresses the construction of class and gender identities. "The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France analyses the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Focusing on bourgeois men and on their voluntary associations, Carol E. Harrison addresses the construction of class and gender identities. In their gentlemen's clubs, learned societies, musical groups, gardening clubs, and charitable associations, bourgeois Frenchmen defined a social order in which the atomized individuals of revolutionarly law could find places for themselves in reconstituted social groups and hierarchies. The practices of sociability reflected a bourgeois view of society as harmonious rather than torn by conflict. The potentially universal virtues of bourgeois masculinity provided a basis for a consensus that could protect social order from the destructive competitiveness of French political life and the industrializing economy. The sociable interaction of male citizens was the crucial bridge between the destruction of Frances's old regime and the development of a mature industrial class society."--Provided by publisher |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191542930 0191542938 1280445513 9781280445514 0191577499 9780191577499 |