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Author: Béatrix Le Wita
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-06-16
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780521466264
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beatrix LeWita sets out to demonstrate that to be bourgeois one must master a system of words, gestures and objects that define a way of life, a particular culture. This ethnography aims to decode the culture that dominates France.
Author: Douglas P. Mackaman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998-12
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0226500756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →And ultimately shows how the premier vacation of an era made and was made by the bourgeoisie.
Author: Sarah Maza
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0674040724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Who, exactly, were the French bourgeoisie? Unlike the Anglo-Americans, who widely embraced middle-class ideals and values, the French--even the most affluent and conservative--have always rejected and maligned bourgeois values and identity. In this new approach to the old question of the bourgeoisie, Sarah Maza focuses on the crucial period before, during, and after the French Revolution, and offers a provocative answer: the French bourgeoisie has never existed. Despite the large numbers of respectable middling town-dwellers, no group identified themselves as bourgeois. Drawing on political and economic theory and history, personal and polemical writings, and works of fiction, Maza argues that the bourgeoisie was never the social norm. In fact, it functioned as a critical counter-norm, an imagined and threatening embodiment of materialism, self-interest, commercialism, and mass culture, which defined all that the French rejected. A challenge to conventional wisdom about modern French history, this book poses broader questions about the role of anti-bourgeois sentiment in French culture, by suggesting parallels between the figures of the bourgeois, the Jew, and the American in the French social imaginary. It is a brilliant and timely foray into our beliefs and fantasies about the social world and our definition of a social class.
Author: Douglas P. Mackaman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998-12
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226500744
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →And ultimately shows how the premier vacation of an era made and was made by the bourgeoisie.
Author: Carol E. Harrison
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1999-07-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0191542938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Jerrold Seigel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-12
Total Pages: 639
ISBN-13: 1107018102
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.
Author: Henri Mendras
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-03-14
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521399982
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social Change in Modern France is a concise and lucid account of the profound transformations that have reshaped French society over the past thirty years. The authors show how the characteristic institutions of the Third Republic have been weakened, destroyed, or severely altered in the face of a late and rapid industrialization. The church, the army, the trade unions, the schools, even the French communist party--all have lost their capacity to excite major conflict and tension, and in their stead a series of local institutions, voluntary associations and family ties have arisen, serving as the basic network for social relations and social life. Traditional French "joie de vivre" has assumed new forms, and, the authors maintain, a very sturdy and cohesive society has arisen, based on widespread consensus.
Author: Jerrold Seigel
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1999-09-30
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780801860638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exotic and yet familiar, rife with passion, immorality, hunger, and freedom, Bohemia was an object of both worry and fascination to workaday Parisians in the nineteenth century. No mere revolt against middle-class society, the Bohemia Seigel discovers was richer and more complex, the stage on which modern bourgeois acted out the conflicts of their social identities, testing the liberation promised by post-revolutionary society against the barriers set up to contain it. Turning life into art, Bohemia became a space where many innovative and original figures—some famous, some obscure—found a home.
Author: R. Kingston
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-10-19
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1137264926
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between 1789 and 1848, clerks modified their occupational practices, responding to political scrutiny and state-administration reforms. Ralph Kingston examines the lives and influence of bureaucrats inside and outside the office as they helped define nineteenth-century bourgeois social capital, ideals of emulation, honour, and masculinity.
