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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| Language: | fra |
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Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du Littéraire
2015-11-01
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| 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). |
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| ISSN: | 1958-9247 |