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Literary Slumming

Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France
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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 Eugene Francois Vidocq, Honore de Balzac, Eugene Sue, Victor Hugo, the Goncourt Brothers, and Emile 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.
Eliza Jane Smith is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of San Diego.
Introduction: Literary Slumming in Nineteenth-Century France Prologue: Slang as Premodern Anti-Language Chapter 1: Slang as Criminal Code Chapter 2: Slang as Embodied Language Chapter 3: Slang as Language Politics Chapter 4: Slang as the Language of Misery Chapter 5: Slang as the Language of Parisians Chapter 6: Slang as the Language of Whores Epilogue: Literary Slumming Across Cultures
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