Longing to Belong

The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature

• Author(s): S. Sasson,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 210
• ISBN_10: 1137330813
  ISBN_13: 9781137330819
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

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.