{"product_id":"literary-slumming","title":"Literary Slumming","description":"\u003ci\u003eLiterary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262495084888,"sku":"9781793621160","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781793621160.jpg?v=1778590877","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/literary-slumming","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}