Longing to Belong [electronic resource] : The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature /
Sasson, S.author.
Sasson, Sarah.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1 Theory of the Parvenu; 2 Sartorial Stories: At the Fringes of the Social Sphere; 3 The Poetics of Identity; 4 The Fiction of Accomplishment; 5 Topography of Conquest; 6 A Strange Bestiary: Alterity and the Question of Humanity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
European literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
European Literature.
Literary History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.