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Volume 26: Issue 1
The Subversion of Gleaning in Balzac's Les Paysans and in Millet's Les Glaneuses
Author:
Ione Crummy Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures The University Montana Missoula Montana 59812-1015 U.S.A Montana 59812-1015 U.S.A

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Pages:
9–18
Online Publication Date:
25 Aug 2006
Publication Date:
01 Jan 1999
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010984819411
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Abstract  

Throughout nineteenth-century France gleaning was perhaps the most controversial usufruct practice and the most frequently depicted in art. Balzac's "objective" depiction of peasant resistance to the suppression of customary unsufruct rights, in his 1845 novel Les Paysans (The Peasants), is motivated by his desire to delegimitized gleaning and bring it under the landowners' control. Balzac's description of the empty, harvested field separating the gleaners from the landowner's grain-laden carts recurs in Millet's 1857 painting Les Glaneuses (The Gleaners), which reflects the poorest peasant's economic marginalization and the landowners' growing power through surveillance — analogous to Foucault's panopticon.

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