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.
| ISBN-13: | 9781137278210 |
| ISBN-10: | 1137278218 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication date: | 2012-12-11 |
| Edition description: | 2012 |
| Pages: | 210 |
| Product dimensions: | Height: 8.5 Inches, Length: 5.5 Inches, Weight: 0.9149183873 Pounds, Width: 0.56 Inches |
| Author: | S. Sasson |
| Language: | en |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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