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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description 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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spelling doaj-art-b7d546db4c914f6c857d800ff20e27bd2025-08-20T03:07:27ZfraGroupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du LittéraireLes Dossiers du GRIHL1958-92472015-11-019110.4000/dossiersgrihl.6463Résurrections cliniques : l’hôpital ou la nouvelle vie des saintes au xixe siècleBertrand MarquerIn 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).https://journals.openedition.org/dossiersgrihl/6463hysteriaZola (émile)Huysmans (Charles Marie Georges)Lourdessublimemedical cases
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Résurrections cliniques : l’hôpital ou la nouvelle vie des saintes au xixe siècle
Les Dossiers du GRIHL
hysteria
Zola (émile)
Huysmans (Charles Marie Georges)
Lourdes
sublime
medical cases
title Résurrections cliniques : l’hôpital ou la nouvelle vie des saintes au xixe siècle
title_full Résurrections cliniques : l’hôpital ou la nouvelle vie des saintes au xixe siècle
title_fullStr Résurrections cliniques : l’hôpital ou la nouvelle vie des saintes au xixe siècle
title_full_unstemmed Résurrections cliniques : l’hôpital ou la nouvelle vie des saintes au xixe siècle
title_short Résurrections cliniques : l’hôpital ou la nouvelle vie des saintes au xixe siècle
title_sort resurrections cliniques l hopital ou la nouvelle vie des saintes au xixe siecle
topic hysteria
Zola (émile)
Huysmans (Charles Marie Georges)
Lourdes
sublime
medical cases
url https://journals.openedition.org/dossiersgrihl/6463
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