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Perrault, Claude (1613-1688) --- Perrault, Charles (1628-1703)1613-1688

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In 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.

Authors, French --- Families --- Social networks --- History --- Perreault family. --- Perrault, Charles, --- Perrault, Claude, --- France --- Intellectual life --- Civilization

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Philosophical anthropology --- Riolan, Jean [jr.] --- Perrault, Claude --- Harvey, William --- Anthropologie médicale --- Medical anthropology --- Anatomie --- Anatomy --- Corps (philosophie) --- Human body (Philosophy) --- History --- Anthropologie médicale

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Architecture --- French literature --- Littérature française --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Perrault, Charles, --- Perrault, Claude, --- Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas, --- Perrault family

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"Éditer la relation, à la fois pratique et théorique, que les frères Perrault ont eue avec une esthétique aussi triomphante que rapidement décriée permet d'éclairer d'un jour nouveau certaines des transformations esthétiques et idéologiques de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle. Cet ouvrage contient l'ensemble de leurs textes concernant le burlesque, c'est-à-dire à la fois des textes de fiction et des textes théoriques, dont la rédaction s'étend sur l'espace d'une quarantaine d'années. Le burlesque fut pour eux bien plus qu'un jeu, dont la saveur est toujours sensible, avec les codes littéraires et linguistiques, il a été l'objet d'une attention constante, des premiers essais poétiques de Charles jusqu'à ses Parallèles. Plus qu'une preuve de leur "bizarrerie" (selon Boileau), l'illustration et la défense théorique du burlesque sont par-dessus tout une expression du mode de pensée moderne qui anime les Perrault : pensée qui se refuse aux révérences obligées envers les anciens, pensée rationaliste visant à débarrasser la littérature du bric-à-brac mythologique, pensée ouverte sur les formes nouvelles et les expérimentations."--P. [4] of cover.

French literature --- Burlesque (Literature) --- Burlesque --- Littérature française --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes et motifs --- Perrault, Charles, --- Perrault, Claude, --- Perrault, Nicolas, --- Perrault, Pierre, --- Themes, motives. --- Littérature française --- Thèmes et motifs