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1 online resource (405 p.) |
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Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Key Publications and Events -- 1 "Ils ont lâché le fou!": Unleashing the Mormon Jester -- Mormons as Jesters -- Mormonism as a French Construct -- Mormonism as Political, Economic, Social, Colonial Experiment -- The French Meet the Mormons: An Overview -- Mormons in the Periodical Press -- The French Mormon: Louis Bertrand -- Mormons in Social Science Literature -- Mormons in Public Policy -- Mormons in Travelogues -- Mormons in Fiction -- Mormons in Visual Representation |
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Mormons in Lectures -- Mormon Dignitaries in France -- Mormons on Stage -- Marianne Meets the Mormons -- 2 "La Loi nouvelle": Mormonism and the Social Question in France -- The Social Question: Mormonism as Social Reform -- Mormonism as Utopianism: Building the City of God -- Mormons, Socialists, and Sex -- Mormonism, 1848, and Antisocialist Backlash -- Mormons, the Commune, and Anticlericalism -- 3 Mormonism, Masculinity, and the Woman Question in Second Empire France -- Subversive Femininity in La Femme chez les Mormons (1856) -- Mormon Masculinity on the Frontier |
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A Woman's Voice: Audouard's À travers l'Amérique -- Coda: Mormon Women and Agency in the Nineteenth-Century French Context -- 4 Between Man and God: Mormons, Spiritualism, and the Occult -- Spiritualism in Second Empire France -- Mormons as Mesmerists -- Spiritualism, Mediumism, and Freemasonry in Paul Duplessis's Les Mormons -- Mormonism and Occultism in the Nineteenth-century French Imagination -- Mocking Mediumism: Prosper Mérimée's "Les Mormons" (1853) -- Mind the Gap -- 5 From Page to Stage: Mormonism and the Woman Question in the Early Third Republic -- La Nouvelle femme Part 1: Compliance |
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La Nouvelle Femme Part 2: Defiance -- Gender Disruptions and Role Reversals on the Parisian Stage -- Berthelier chez les Mormonnes -- Camille -- Le Bijou de Stéphana -- Masculinity under Fire -- The Frenchification of the Mormons -- 6 "Ces mœurs sont bien les nôtres!": Mormons, Marriage, and the Divorce Debate -- Mercantile Marriage -- Mormonism and the Divorce Debate -- Mormons as Foils to Expose Hypocrisy -- Aimé Van Rod's La Revanche du Mormon -- 7 Exotic Mormons and the French Colonial Project -- Mormon Colonist, Mormon Other -- Mormons and the Middle East -- Mormons as Jews |
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Mormons as Muslims -- Albert Robida: Exoticizing the Mormons -- Robida's Saturnin Farandoul (1879) -- Mormons and the Global Project -- Robida's Le Vingtième siècle (1882) -- Colonizing the Stage: Les Douze femmes de Japhet (1890) and Le Bijou de Stéphana (1892) -- From Exotic to Prosaic -- 8 "La Fin du Mormonisme" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cropper, Corry
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Lee, Daryl
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| ISBN |
9780252053696 |
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0252053699 |
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