Introduction: Literary Slumming in Nineteenth-Century France; Prologue: Slang as Premodern Anti-Language ; Chapter 1: Slang as Criminal Code ; Chapter 2: Slang as Embodied Language; Chapter 3: Slang as Language Politics; Chapter 4: Slang as the Language of Misery ; Chapter 5: Slang as the Language of Parisians; Chapter 6: Slang as the Language of Whores ; Epilogue: Literary Slumming Across Cultures