Title: Medieval saints in late nineteenth century French culture : eight essays /
Authors: Emery, Elizabeth; Postlewate, Laurie, 1957-
Publisher: McFarland & Co.,
Year: 2004
Subjects: French literature History and criticism; Saints in literature
Contents: Saints as inspiration for art, literature and music. "Sur un vitrail d'église": structures and sources in Flaubert's "Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier" / Rori Bloom -- When the saints go marching in: popular performances of La tentation de Saint Antoine and Sainte Geneviève de Paris at the Chat Noir shadow theater / Madhuri Mukherjee -- The "scientific" examination of saints' visions. Odilon Redon's Temptation of Saint Anthony lithographs / Barbara Larson -- The Golden legend in the fin de siècle: Zola's Le rêve and its reception / Elizabeth Emery -- The struggle to recontextualize hagiography. Translatio Lidwinae: the adaptation of medieval sources in Huysmans' Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam / Laurie Postlewate -- Discourse on method: Hippolyte Delehaye's Légendes hagiographiques / C.J.T. Talar -- Hagiography and the cult of the nation. Polychromatic piety: saints according to Anatole France / Christina Ferree Chabrier -- Unofficial and secular saint in integral nationalist discourse: Maurice Barrès' literary Jeanne d'Arc / Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt.