Unholy Pleasure: the idea of social class (Record no. 23010)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780192159557
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.5 FUR
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Personal name Furbank. P.N.
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Title Unholy Pleasure: the idea of social class
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. 1985
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Extent 154p.
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Summary, etc. What is 'class'? Is it a concept<br/>invented only in the nineteenth<br/>century, and if so, what relationship<br/>does it bear to earlier concepts such as<br/>'order', 'rank', and 'estate'? How did<br/>the English idea of the 'gentleman'<br/>compare with, say, the French concept<br/>of the honnête homme?<br/>These are some of the questions this<br/>book attempts to answer. It explores<br/>the derivation of our ideas about<br/>social class and takes a close look at<br/>our intentions in deploying 'class'<br/>terminology. What did Marx really<br/>mean when he spoke of the<br/>'bourgeois'? Do historians and<br/>sociologists have the right to use the<br/>term 'class', over which they disagree<br/>so bitterly? What are the motives of<br/>those who take 'unholy pleasure' in<br/>finding class amusing? The discussion<br/>ranges from these to more concrete<br/>topics, such as the master-servant<br/>relationship, the popularity of<br/>etiquette books, and the mysterious<br/>significance of the dropped h.<br/>The author's unambiguous<br/>conclusion is that 'class' is a rhetorical<br/>term, invariably used as a form of<br/>social action; and, it is argued, the<br/>concept of class has had its day: great<br/>novelists like Dickens, Kafka, and<br/>Proust show us how to see through it<br/>and beyond it.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social Classes.
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