1st Edition
Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700�1855) From Satire to Sanctity
By Nora M. Heimann
Copyright 2005
292 Pages
by
Routledge
291 Pages
by
Routledge
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In her meticulous and wide-ranging study, Nora M. Heimann follows the metamorphosis of Joan of Arc's posthumous representation during the years in which her image ascended from relative obscurity as a minor provincial figure in the middle ages through her treatment as a figure of political satire in the eighteenth century to her ultimate emergence as an image of piety and sanctity in the... Read more
Contents: Introduction: 'What honor for the feminine sex?'; Pornography as hagiography and the engendering of virtue: Chapelain, Voltaire, and The Maid of Orl‘s; The Maid in an age of revolution and romantic tragedy: the provocation and legacy of Schiller‘s Die Jungfrau von Orleans; 'The miracle of French genius': Napoleon and Gois‘s Jeanne d Arc au combat; Martyrdom and misfortune, history and genre: the art of Delaroche and the restoration of the monarchy; Joan of Arc and the July Monarchy: Michelet, Marie d Orl‘s, and Ingres; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Nora M. Heimann
