Marianne Meets the Mormons : Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France
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| Title: | Marianne Meets the Mormons : Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France |
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| 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. |
| Authors: | Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, Daryl Lee |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Latter Day Saints in literature, Latter Day Saint churches--France--Public opinion--History--19th century, Latter Day Saints--France--Public opinion--History--19th century, Religion and culture--France--History--19th century |
| Categories: | RELIGION / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, RELIGION / Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9780252044670 9780252086762 9780252053696 |
