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Longing to Belong

The Parvenu in Nineteenth-Century French and German Literature

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  1. Sarah Juliette Sasson
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Part of the book series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters (19CMLL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-8

  3. Theory of the Parvenu

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    Pages 9-38

  4. Sartorial Stories: At the Fringes of the Social Sphere

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    Pages 39-66

  5. The Poetics of Identity

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    Pages 67-82

  6. The Fiction of Accomplishment

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    Pages 83-99

  7. Topography of Conquest

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    Pages 101-124

  8. A Strange Bestiary: Alterity and the Question of Humanity

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    Pages 125-146

  9. Conclusion

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    Pages 147-150

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 151-210
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About this book

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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"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.

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