Lire « en corps ». Lecture et écriture symptomatique de l’odeur de sainteté (1868-1901)

Manon Raffard

Lire « en corps ». Lecture et écriture symptomatique de l’odeur de sainteté (1868-1901)

Translated title of the contribution: Symptomatic bodies: reading and writing the odor of sanctity in French culture (1868-1901)

Manon Raffard

Modern Languages and Cultures

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Using examples from novels by the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Zola and Lemonnier, this paper explores the literary representation of the odor of sanctity in regard to the main epistemological discourses of the second half of the 19th century. In this deeply anticlerical intellectual context, the Christian myth of the odor of sanctity is analyzed by medical professionals and scientists as a pathological phenomenon. Although taking into account the divergent aesthetics of the selected authors, the study focuses mostly on the ambiguity literary texts maintain between the unspeakable experience of religious ecstasy and a symptomatic vision of the body.

Translated title of the contribution	Symptomatic bodies: reading and writing the odor of sanctity in French culture (1868-1901)
Original language	French
Title of host publication	Société des Etudes Romantiques et Dixneuvièmistes (SERD), La partie et le tout. Partitions et (re)compositions des corps au XIXe siècle (Université Paris Cité).
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2021

Keywords

odor of sanctity
mysticism
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Camille Lemonnier
French studies
sensory reading
sensory studies

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Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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