Longing to Belong
The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European
| Author: | S. Sasson | ISBN: | 9781137330819 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US | Publication: | December 11, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | S. Sasson |
| ISBN: | 9781137330819 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication: | December 11, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
An emblematic figure of the 'bourgeois century,' the parvenu represents the Other on which a society depends. This drama of exclusion is symptomatic of nineteenth-century society: ambivalent about social mobility, oscillating between a new sense of opportunity for all and a backward-looking retrenchment to rigid social structures.
An emblematic figure of the 'bourgeois century,' the parvenu represents the Other on which a society depends. This drama of exclusion is symptomatic of nineteenth-century society: ambivalent about social mobility, oscillating between a new sense of opportunity for all and a backward-looking retrenchment to rigid social structures.
