Longing to Belong: The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)

Sasson, Sarah

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Longing to Belong: The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)

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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