Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933
© 2005
Stephen Schloesser’s Jazz Age Catholicism shows how a postwar generation of Catholics refashioned traditional notions of sacramentalism in modern language and imagery. Jacques Maritain’s philosophy, Georges Rouault’s visual art, Georges Bernanos’s fiction, and Charles Tournemire’s music all reclothed ancient tropes in new fashions. By the late 1920s, the renouveau catholique had successfully positioned Catholic intellectual and cultural discourse at the very centre of elite French life. Its synthesis of Catholicism and culture would define the religiosity of many throughout Western Europe and the Americas into the 1960s.
Product Details
- Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture
- World Rights
- Page Count: 440 pages
- Dimensions: 6.2in x 1.6in x 9.3in
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Reviews
‘Schloesser's work is an exemplar for musicologists of a passionate interdisciplinary navigation through a historical puzzle: the politicization of modern art through Christian renewal. As such it is an invaluable narrative and pre-history for scholars of twentieth century French music.’
Robert Sholl
Music and Letters, vol 93:01:2012 -
Author Information
Stephen Schloesser is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Boston College. -
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction A Refusal to Quarantine the Sacred
Prologue Realism, Eternalism, Spiritual Naturalism
Part One: From Dualism to Dialectic
1 Cultural Manicheanism: Apocalyptic Melodrama
2 Trauma and Memorial: Repatriating the Repressed
3 Mystic Realism: A Faith That Faced the Facts
Part Two: Jacques and Raïssa Maritain: Cultural Hylomorphism
4 Ultramodernist Anti-modernism: Neoclassical Catholicism
5 Catholic Catholicity: Nothing Human Is Alien
Part Three: Mystic Modernism: Catholic Visions of the Real
6 Georges Rouault: Masked Redemption
7 Georges Bernanos: Passionate Supernaturalism
8 Charles Tournemire: Mystical Dissonance
Abbreviations 323
Notes 325
Index 421
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Prizes
John Gilmary Shea Prize - American Catholic Historical Association - Winner in 2006 -
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