Tuesday, January 29, 2013
To get this all started I had a question concerning a term found in the reading, which also popped up in readings for Dr. Steffen's seminar on Revolutionary America. Does anyone have a good understanding of "parvenu?" Does this term have any significance for class or cullture in colonial Virginia specifically?
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Possibly in several senses--for instance, the fact that Virginia was not populated by old aristocratic families. It's a new wealth versus old wealth (Great Gatsby) kind of thing.
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