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Longing to Belong

The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-137-27821-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Erscheinungstermin: 11.12.2012
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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.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781137278210
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-27821-0
  • Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
  • Erscheinungstermin: 11.12.2012
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2012. Auflage 2012
  • Serie: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 340 g
  • Seiten: 210
  • Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Sasson, S.

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