Wampuszyc: “The Narrative of Noble Decline"

She writes about the noble decline and their relationship to money, so the peasants and the jews are not mentioned mostly as a part of the study. It is study of how a discourse on wealth became a discourse on money. 12 Polish money uses Polish and not Latin and they print paper money for the first time as need arose and as a sign of their legitimacy and nationalism. 23 Russian money in Poland after the uprising. 24 The 19th century Poland was still stuck in its Szlachta culture and even with the rise of the industrialization of the country it did not bring about a rise in new middle class, as it did in France, but just made the the nobles richer. 25 Religious thinking on money also influenced the lower classes especially, but Poland in general, from looking at money as a favorable thing. 27 Money didn't play a major part of literature in realism. It was shown that someone had it or needed it, but not in concrete terms. 30 With the death of Alex I and the reign of Alex II the loosening of laws agianst private organizations was met with the flood of organizations that started to meet with secret motives of independence. The combination of the tensions from arrests of poles and the drafting into the Russian armies of Poles caused the uprising. 98 The Russian response to the uprising was the stripping of the szlachti of their estates and with the loss of estates came the loss of economic independence, priviliges and prestige. 99 High taxes and the forced Russian language in the schools and business caused increased moves to the cities for the peasants and the gentry. 101 The peasants were freed in 1864 only after the uprising and showed the difference between the gentry and the peasants who were tied more to the land than they were to Polish nationalism. 102 The gentry were not compensated at the same rate as the Russian gentry and with the loss of land, workers and increased taxes the stress was even greater on the gentry. 103 The polish nation, that is the gentry relied on "language, literature and tradition" to support their nationalism - all of this was lost with the uprising. 108 The new press let go of the romanticism and traditionalism and moved toward positivism. The press was not overly Russian because of the lack of available materials in Poland and was thus able to continue in Polish. In the new press was written the new traditions of Poland after the insurection. 112 Defining the old tradtitions of the gentry. 112-119 Positivist response. 128 Work was a major goal of the P propigated in journalism and literture, but to get the gentry to work and the peasants to work in useful areas outside of agriculture was difficult. 129-135 P lit had a new hero - one that worked instead of the old gentry. 136-137 Prus wrote and believed in the P ideals as a "middle of the roader" and the need for all to work - not in the marxist sense, but for all to work in all spheres. 137 Society as an organism. 139 Prus as a novelist "emancipated" and defines his goals for poland. 151 Lalka as theory turned into action based on observation. 151-155 demise of the family after the uprising. 156 upholds capitalism 158 Emancipantki as the culmination of women's emancipation and the rise of the intelligentsia 160-167 Emancipantki Karolina Latter- genrty woman turned professional 168-175 Prus' Modern woman 175-187 Gentry to professional woman 187-191 The middle class in Emancipantki 191-198 Two faces of Usury. 198-202 Idealism and pragmatism. 202-210 Conclusions -Prus. 213-216