| Contents |
"Ils ont lâché le fou!" : unleashing the Mormon jester -- "La loi nouvelle" : Mormonism and the social question in France -- Mormonism, masculinity, and the woman question in Second Empire France -- Between man and God : Mormons, spiritualism, and the occult -- From page to stage : Mormonism and the woman question in the early Third Republic -- "Ces mœurs sont bien les nôtres!" : Mormons, marriage, and the divorce debate -- Exotic Mormons and the French colonial project -- "La fin du mormonisme". |
| 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, literature, politics, and popular culture. Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee illuminate the creation and use of Latter-day Saint stereotypes in France from the 1830s to 1914. Though sometimes ridiculed, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just as often played an important role in satire and criticism that exposed, critiqued, and parodied French society. France's extreme, imagined Mormonism became a malleable tool in debates over issues as diverse as family, Spiritualism, and church-state relations while providing artists and others with a medium for working through the possibilities and impossibilities of their own fragmented nation. Surprising and innovative, Marianne Meets the Mormons looks at how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints influenced generations of French public and intellectual life"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Jensen, Heather Belnap. Marianne meets the Mormons Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022] 9780252044670 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022008972 |
| ISBN | 9780252053696 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
