Longing to belong: the parvenu in nineteenth-century french and german literature
Auteur :
Sasson, S.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781137278210
Date de publication :
11 déc. 2012
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.