Longing to Belong
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Longing to Belong

The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature

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  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Longing to Belong

The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Prologue
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Theory of the Parvenu
  11. 2 Sartorial Stories: At the Fringes of the Social Sphere
  12. 3 The Poetics of Identity
  13. 4 The Fiction of Accomplishment
  14. 5 Topography of Conquest
  15. 6 A Strange Bestiary: Alterity and the Question of Humanity
  16. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index