Résurrections cliniques : l’hôpital ou la nouvelle vie des saintes au xixe siècle

In the nineteenth century, Saints experience a new life in the form of a medical case: the clinical discourse takes over the martyrology, seen as a collection of symptoms to analyze. At the end of the century, the Saint becomes both a hysterical and a novelistic character, often serving an anticleri...

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Main Author: Bertrand Marquer
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du Littéraire 2015-11-01
Series:Les Dossiers du GRIHL
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/dossiersgrihl/6463
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Summary:In the nineteenth century, Saints experience a new life in the form of a medical case: the clinical discourse takes over the martyrology, seen as a collection of symptoms to analyze. At the end of the century, the Saint becomes both a hysterical and a novelistic character, often serving an anticlerical rhetoric. The sublime however does not disappear, because the Saint's life can be part of a formal renewal (in the case of Decadence) or of an aesthetic shift (in the case of Zola's naturalism).
ISSN:1958-9247