Longing to Belong The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismEuropeanModern19th CenturyLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguistics
2012Book
Author(s)Sarah Sasson
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137278210
LanguageEnglish
