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In The Court Of The Pear King: French Culture And The Rise Of Realism

In The Court Of The Pear King: French Culture And The Rise Of Realism Hardback - 2005

by Petrey, Sandy

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  • Title In The Court Of The Pear King: French Culture And The Rise Of Realism
  • Author Petrey, Sandy
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press
  • Date 2005-04-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR010032424
  • ISBN 9780801443411 / 0801443415
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.32 x 0.81 in (23.62 x 16.05 x 2.06 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects Realism in literature, France - Intellectual life - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004030150
  • Dewey Decimal Code 843.709

From the publisher

The period 1830-1832 witnessed a remarkable series of cultural and political milestones in France. In 1830, a revolution overturned one monarchy, only to replace it with another. In 1831, Charles Philippon's caricature of Louis-Philippe, the new monarch, as a pear achieved extraordinary popularity. Drawn on walls from one end of France to another, the pear caricature became a national obsession. In that same year, George Sand moved from the provinces to Paris and challenged gender stereotypes by adopting men's clothes and writing fiction in a man's voice. During 1830-1832, Stendhal and Balzac developed the techniques of the realist novel that still dominate much of the world's fiction. Sandy Petrey explores the factors accounting for such consequential innovations in so short a time, so restricted a space. In Petrey's view, these disparate events betoken a common recognition of society's capacity to make and unmake what it recognizes as real.Petrey's first two chapters explore the popularity of the pear caricature. The remaining chapters focus on Balzac, Stendhal, and Sand, addressing these writers' concern with society's power to define and transform the identity of its members. For Petrey their work continually recalls the hybrid character of Philippon's pear, both totally unlike the king and the king's spitting image. While the French government declared the July Revolution a nonevent and the July Monarchy an incontrovertible fact, French fiction concentrated on society's power to declare an individual a nonperson or to make presence out of absence, plenitude out of emptiness.

First line

The caricature of King Louis-Philippe as a pear is different from every other comic drawing of a man in power.

About the author

Sandy Petrey is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Realism and Revolution: Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, and the Performances of History (also from Cornell) and Speech Acts and Literary Theory.

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