Longing to belong
the parvenu in nineteenth-century French and German literature
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Author
Publication
2012 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
52,500 words, Guess
Page Count
210 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25347623M
- ISBN-139781137278210
- OCLC Control Number793573217
- Library of Congress Control Number2012022502
Classifications
- DDC840.9/007
- LCCPQ283 .S27 2012
Description
"Rising from humble origins to a position of preeminence, galvanized by the possibilities for financial gains made possible by the 'age of capital,' multitudes of social climbers appeared, 'on the make,' bent on conquering society's upper reaches by whatever means available. Yet making it is not the same as fitting in: 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 as a whole -- ambivalent about social mobility and the meaning of social advancement, oscillating between a new sense of opportunity for all and a backward-looking retrenchment to rigid social structures. The parvenu allows us to decipher a culture and its prejudices, its fears and its difficulty in negotiating the advent of modernity"--
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Series Statement
- Nineteenth century major lives and letters
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