Marianne Meets the Mormons : Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France

Belnap, Heather/ Cropper, Corry/ Lee, Daryl

University of Illinois Press（2022/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780252044670
• DDC分類 289.344

Full Description

In the nineteenth century, a fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made Mormons and Mormonism a common trope in French journalism, art, literature, politics, and popular culture. Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee bring to light French representations of Mormonism from the 1830s to 1914, arguing that these portrayals often critiqued and parodied French society. Mormonism became a pretext for reconsidering issues such as gender, colonialism, the family, and church-state relations while providing artists and authors with a means for working through the possibilities of their own evolving national identity. Surprising and innovative, Marianne Meets the Mormons looks at how nineteenth-century French observers engaged with the idea of Mormonism in order to reframe their own cultural preoccupations.

Contents

Acknowledgments Chronology of Key Publications and Events

Chapter 1. "Ils ont lÂchÉ le fou!": Unleashing the Mormon Jester

Chapter 2. "La Loi nouvelle": Mormonism and the Social Question in France

Chapter 3. Mormonism, Masculinity, and the Woman Question in Second Empire France

Chapter 4. Between Man and God: Mormons, Spiritualism, and the Occult

Chapter 5. From Page to Stage: Mormonism and the Woman Question in the Early Third Republic

Chapter 6. "Ces mŒurs sont bien les nÔtres!" Mormons, Marriage, and the Divorce Debate

Chapter 7. Exotic Mormons and the French Colonial Project

Chapter 8. "La Fin du Mormonisme"

Notes Bibliography

Index