ISBN-13: 9781137278210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 210 str.
ISBN-13: 9781137278210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 210 str.
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