Social Iconotext: the Stoics’ Club in John Galsworthy’s The Country House (1907)

The aim of this article is to describe Galsworthy’s use of visual writing and its relation to irony and social satire. It shows the importance of the club as habitus (Bourdieu), both real and metaphorical. In reference to Hamon’s concept of technème, it studies the importance and symbolic meanings o...

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Main Author: Maxime Leroy
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Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2015-06-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/1994
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Social Iconotext: the Stoics’ Club in John Galsworthy’s The Country House (1907)
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title Social Iconotext: the Stoics’ Club in John Galsworthy’s The Country House (1907)
title_full Social Iconotext: the Stoics’ Club in John Galsworthy’s The Country House (1907)
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title_short Social Iconotext: the Stoics’ Club in John Galsworthy’s The Country House (1907)
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