In the Court of the Pear King : : French Culture and the Rise of Realism / / Sandy Petrey.
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 popular...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 6 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. It’s a Pear!
- 2. Realist Reality and Realist Duality
- 3. George Sand the Phallocrat and Don Juan the Pussycat
- 4. Liberty the Goddess, Robert the Devil, Louis-Philippe the King
- 5. Julien, Lucien, and Realist History
- Conclusion: Realism Is Representational
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index