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Longing to belong : the parvenu in nineteenth-century French and German literature

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Title Information:	the parvenu in nineteenth-century French and German literature
Author:	SassonSarah.,
Alternative Intellectual Responsibility:	SassonSarah.,
Place of Publication:	New York
Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
Year of Publication:	2012
Description:	1 online resource.
Series:	Nineteenth century major lives and letters
Subject:	French literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Subject:	German literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Subject:	Social classes in literature. -
Subject:	Marginality, Social, in literature. -
Subject:	Literature and society - History - France - 19th century. -
Subject:	Literature and society - History - Germany - 19th century. -
Subject:	LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French -
Subject:	LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German -
Subject:	LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137330819
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
Summary:	"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"--
ISBN:	9781137330819electronic bk.
ISBN:	1137330813electronic bk.
Content Note:	PART I: THEORY OF THE PARVENU The Paradox of the Parvenu The Uses if Parody The Jew: the Parvenu of Parvenus Between Pariah and Parvenu PART II: SARTORIAL STORIES: AT THE FRINGES OF THE SOCIAL SPHERE On Ostentation: The Sartorial Metaphor The Parvenu's Livery Emilie de Fontaine's Sartorial Crusade PART III: THE POETICS OF IDENTITY The 'Mourning of Origins' PART IV: THE FICTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENT On Kinship The Family Parasite Ideal and Real Bride: The Newcomer's Family Fantasy The End of Exogamy PART V: TOPOGRAPHY OF CONTEST Topography and Mobility The 'Imaginary Museum' PART VI: A STRANGE BESTIARY: ALTERITY AND THE QUESTION OF HUMANITY The Question of Humanity Half-Peacock, Half Vulture: The Portrait of the Parvenu and the Financier as Animal The Metaphor Literalized: Toussenel's Bestiary The Human Question, Again.

Longing to belong : the parvenu in nineteenth-century French and German literature
Sasson, Sarah.

Longing to belong : the parvenu in nineteenth-century French and German literature / Sarah Sasson. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 1 online resource.. - (Nineteenth century major lives and letters).
PART I: THEORY OF THE PARVENU.
Description based on print version record..
ISBN 9781137330819ISBN 1137330813
French literatureGerman literatureSocial classes in literature.Marginality, Social, in literature.Literature and societyLiterature and societyLITERARY CRITICISM / European / FrenchLITERARY CRITICISM / European / GermanLITERARY CRITICISM / European / General -- History and criticism. -- History and criticism. -- History -- History -- France -- Germany -- 19th century -- 19th century -- 19th century. -- 19th century.

Sasson, Sarah.

Longing to belong : the parvenu in nineteenth-century French and German literature
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