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Longing to Belong: The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature 2012th Edition
Author(s): S. Sasson (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 11 Dec. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 223 pages
- ISBN-10: 1137278218
- ISBN-13: 9781137278210
Book Description
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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Review
“Longing to Belong is a perceptive and engaging addition to the scholarly conversation about the restructuring of national identity in the post-revolutionary era.” – Kristin Samuelian, Associate Professor of English, George Mason University, USA
About the Author
Sarah Juliette Sasson is a lecturer in French and Romance Philology at Columbia Univeristy.
