TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Longing to belong : the parvenu in nineteenth-century French and German literature
T2  - Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
A1  - Sasson, Sarah
LA  - eng
PP  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2479708
AB  - "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"--
SN  - 1137278218 hardback
SN  - 9781137278210 hardback
KW  - 1800-luku
KW  - French literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - German literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Literature and society : France : History : 19th century.
KW  - Literature and society : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Marginality, Social, in literature.
KW  - Social classes in literature.
KW  - kirjallisuus
KW  - yhteiskuntaluokat
KW  - Ranska
KW  - Saksa
KW  - nousukkaat
ER  -