Author: Sandy Petrey
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150172939X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
In the Court of the Pear King
Author: Sandy Petrey
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150172939X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150172939X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, and Common Pleas, from 1822 to 1835
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1222
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1222
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Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer
Author: Great Britain. Courts
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench, and Common Pleas, in Personal Actions, and Ejectment
Author: William Tidd
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Supplement to The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, &c
Author: William Tidd
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Reports of Cases, Determined at Nisi Prius, in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas ...
Author: Great Britain. Courts
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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The Practice of the Court of King's Bench in Personal Actions and Ejectment
Author: John Frederick Archbold
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Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Notes of Cases Argued, and Adjudged, in the Court of King's Bench
Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Reports of cases determined in the Land Appeal Court of New South Wales
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
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