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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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.