Longing to Belong The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature
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-lookin...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
2012.
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Colección: | Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters.
Springer eBooks. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b36197294*spi |
Sumario: | 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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Descripción Física: | XIII, 210 p. 7 illus |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781137330819 |