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mods: The bourgeois citizen in nineteenth-century France gender, sociability, and the uses of emulation Bourgeois citizen in 19th century France Harrison, Carol E. creator text bibliography Electronic books. History enk Oxford Oxford University Press ©1999 1999 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) 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 1. Emulation: class, gender, and context -- 2. Contesting the public sphere: associations and the government in nineteenth-century France -- 3. The bourgeois as scientist and the sociability of the learned society -- 4. Honest amusements -- 5. Patronage: emulation for the working class -- 6. Charitable imperatives -- 7. Emulating the elite: association and the petit bourg…