LEADER 04059nam 2200613 450 001 9910793007703321 005 20231226131332.0 010 $a1-5017-3008-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501730085 035 $a(CKB)4100000007010744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5558392 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002048729 035 $a(OCoLC)1033562422 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67652 035 $a(DE-B1597)503421 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501730085 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5558392 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007010744 100 $a20181115d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Perraults $ea family of letters in early modern France /$fOded Rabinovitch 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (252 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a1-5017-2942-X 311 $a1-5017-3009-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tFigures --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tCast of Characters --$tIntroduction --$t1. Representing a Family of Letters: Images of Authorship (1650-1750) --$t2. Finance and Mobility: Pierre Ascendant (1600-1660) --$t3. The Perraults in the Countryside: Viry and Literary Sociability (1650-1680) --$t4. Failure in Finance and the Rise of Charles Perrault (1660-1680) --$t5. The Perraults and Versailles: Mediating Grandeur (1660-1700) --$t6. Claude Perrault and the Mechanics of Animals: Family and Scientific Institutions (1660-1690) --$tEpilogue (1690-1730) --$tAppendix --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly changing world of early modern France. Today, the Perraults are best remembered for their canonical fairy tales, such as "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots," most often attributed to Charles Perrault, one of the brothers. While the writing of fairy tales may seem a frivolous enterprise, it was, in fact, linked to the cultural revolution of the seventeenth century, which paved the way for the scientific revolution, the rise of "national literatures," and the early Enlightenment. Rabinovitch argues that kinship networks played a crucial, yet unexamined, role in shaping the cultural and intellectual ferment of the day, which in turn shaped kinship and the social history of the family.Through skillful reconstruction of the Perraults' careers and networks, Rabinovitch portrays the world of letters as a means of social mobility. He complicates our understanding of prominent institutions, such as the Academy of Sciences, Versailles, and the salons, as well as the very notions of authorship and court capitalism. The Perraults shows us that institutions were not simply rigid entities, embodying or defining intellectual or literary styles such as Cartesianism, empiricism, or the purity of the French language. Rather, they emerge as nodes that connect actors, intellectual projects, family strategies, and practices of writing. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aAuthors, French$y17th century$vBiography 606 $aFamilies$zFrance$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aSocial networks$zFrance$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aHISTORY / Europe / France$2bisacsh 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y17th century 607 $aFrance$xCivilization$y17th century 615 0$aAuthors, French 615 0$aFamilies$xHistory 615 0$aSocial networks$xHistory 615 7$aHISTORY / Europe / France. 676 $a929.20944 700 $aRabinovitch$b Oded$01185510 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793007703321 996 $aThe Perraults$93866534 997 $aUNINA