Longing to Belong
The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature| By: | S. Sasson |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137278210 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137330819 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2012 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.