ISBN:
1137278218
,
9781137278210
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 210 S.
,
Ill.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
DDC:
306.09
Keywords:
French literature History and criticism 19th century
;
Social classes in literature
;
Marginality, Social, in literature
;
Literature and society History 19th century
;
Literature and society History 19th century
;
Internationaler Vergleich
;
Literatur
;
Gruppenverhalten
;
Beispiel
;
Frankreich Deutschland
;
Internationaler Vergleich/Ländervergleich
;
Literatur
;
Jahrhundert 19
;
Rezeption
;
Sozialer Aufstieg
;
Gruppenverhalten
;
Beispielhafte Fälle
;
France Germany
;
International/country comparison
;
Literature
;
Century 19th
;
reception
;
Social advancement
;
Group behaviour
;
Exemplary cases
;
Assimilation Soziale Anpassung
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Kulturelle Werte und Normen
;
Gruppenspezifisches Sprachverhalten
;
Kommunikationsinhalte
;
Social adjustment Cultural identity
;
Cultural values and standards
;
Group-specific linguistic behaviour
;
Contents of communication
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Frankreich
;
Deutschland
;
Deutsch
;
Französisch
;
Literatur
;
Emporkömmling
;
Deutsch
;
Französisch
;
Literatur
;
Emporkömmling
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
"Rising from humble origins to a position of preeminence, galvanized by the possibilities for financial gains made possible by the 'age of capital,' multitudes of social climbers appeared, 'on the make,' bent on conquering society's upper reaches by whatever means available. Yet making it is not the same as fitting in: 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 as a whole -- ambivalent about social mobility and the meaning of social advancement, oscillating between a new sense of opportunity for all and a backward-looking retrenchment to rigid social structures. The parvenu allows us to decipher a culture and its prejudices, its fears and its difficulty in negotiating the advent of modernity"--
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