LEADER 04280nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910807736403321 005 20240614182834.0 010 $a0-674-04072-4 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674040724 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786849 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050795 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000207660 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12021951 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207660 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10237224 035 $a(PQKB)11740584 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300450 035 $a(DE-B1597)574302 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674040724 035 $a(OCoLC)1294423191 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786849 100 $a20050224e20052003 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe myth of the French bourgeoisie $ean essay on the social imaginary, 1750-1850 /$fSarah Maza 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. ;$aLondon $cHarvard University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 2003. 311 $a0-674-01769-2 327 $aAcknowledgments Introduction: Is There a Class in This Text? 1. The Social Imaginary in Prerevolutionary France 2. Commerce, Luxury, and Family Love 3. Revolutionary Brotherhood and the War against Aristocracy 4. The Social World after Thermidor 5. The Political Birth of the Bourgeoisie, 1815-1830 6. The Failure of "Bourgeoisie Monarchy" Conclusion: The Bourgeois, the Jew, and the American Notes Index 330 $aSarah Maza argues that the French bourgeois of history never in fact existed, except as a critical counter-norm to French society, an imagined and threatening embodiment of materialism, self-interest, commercialism and mass culture, which defined all that France rejected. 330 $bWho, 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. 606 $aMiddle class$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMiddle class$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSociety$2eflch 606 $aCommunities - Social Classes$2HILCC 606 $aSociology & Social History$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books.$2lcsh 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 7$aSociety. 615 7$aCommunities - Social Classes 615 7$aSociology & Social History 615 7$aSocial Sciences 676 $a305.550944 686 $a89.42$2bkl 686 $a15.65$2bkl 686 $2bkl 686 $2bkl 686 $2bkl 686 $2bkl 686 $2nlm 686 $2nlm 686 $2msc 686 $2msc 686 $2rvk 686 $2rvk 700 $aMaza$b Sarah C.$f1953-$0152196 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bUkPrAHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807736403321 996 $aThe myth of the French bourgeoisie$92161507 997 $aUNINA