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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
