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.
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