ISBN:
9781845455712
,
1282627899
,
9781282627895
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 231 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Colette's Republic : Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914
DDC:
306.0944/09034
Keywords:
Secularism History 19th century
;
Performing arts Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Popular culture History 19th century
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Sex role History 19th century
;
Sex role History 20th century
;
Performing arts Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Education Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Education Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Secularism History 20th century
Abstract:
In France's Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Catholicism, the Third Republic engendered its own fantastical ways of seeing by embracing observation, corporeal dynamism, and imaginative introspection. How these republican ideals and the new national education system of the 1870s and 80s-the structure meant to impart these ideals-shaped belle époque popula
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page-Colette's Republic; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1-""There Are No Foolish Metiers""; Chapter 2-""A Healthy Soul in a Healthy Body""; Chapter 3-Claudine in Paris; Chapter 4-Earning Her Bread; Chapter 5-""The Triumph of the Flesh""; Chapter 6-""The People's Muse""; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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