Inventing the Popular by Bettina R Lerner
The decades leading up to the Revolution of 1848 witnessed radical transformations in popular culture in France. In the first study to show how competing works by working-class writers both resisted and contributed to these sudden changes in the cultural field, Bettina R. Lerner departs from previous studies that have tended to dismiss working-class writing as a slavish and trite imitation of Romantic models. She suggests that it was precisely through their engagement with hegemonic Romanticism, along with changes in the printing industry, that workers were able to promote specific political and poetic agendas among lower- and middle-market consumers. Turning to the archive, Lerner describes the rise and fall of working-class newspapers such as L'Atelier, La Ruche populaire, L'Union, and La Fraternite de 1845, traces the efforts of worker poets Savinien Lapointe and Charles Poncy to position themselves against writers who sought to assimilate notions of the popular within dominant culture; places works by Agricol Perdiguier within the discourse on popular culture disseminated by French worker poets; and reads Reine Garde's poetry against Lamartine's sentimental novel Genevieve. Her book is a unique contribution to French studies that maps the emergence of modern categories such as high and low, dominant and subordinate, authentic and artificial which continue to structure mass culture and the ideologies it replicates.-
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"Lerner showcases the writings of a politically and socially active group of working-class writers whose concept of popular culture represented a departure from traditional forms of popular expression [..] Carefully written and meticu-lously documented."
- Hope Christiansen, University of Arkansas, French Review
"This book, meticulously researched and with an extensive bibliography and thorough index, is a valuable resource for both historians and literary scholars [...] This work is suitable for a broad audience because Lerner is extremely transparent about her methodology. No term is taken for granted, no theory is used uncritically, and, as a result, this monograph contains useful tools for anyone interested in analyzing popular literature."
- Rebecca Powers, University of California Santa Barbara, H-France Review
Bettina R. Lerner is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at The City College, CUNY, USA
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| ISBN 13 | 9780367592721 |
| ISBN 10 | 036759272X |
| Title | Inventing the Popular |
| Author | Bettina R Lerner |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Nineteenth Century Literature |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2020-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 190 |
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