Longing to Belong - The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Sarah Juliette Sasson is a lecturer in French and Romance Philology at Columbia Univeristy. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

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"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

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• Authors: S Sasson, S. Sasson, Sarah J. Sasson, Sarah Juliette Sasson, Sarahb Juliette Sasson, SASSON SARAH JULIETTE
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2012
• EAN: 9781137278210
• ISBN: 978-1-137-27821-0
• No. of pages: 223
• Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives; Nineteenth Century Major Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Europa, B, Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, Society, Structure, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Poetics, Literature: history & criticism, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Literature Collection, Social structures