{"product_id":"romantic-catholics-frances-postrevolutionary-generation-in-search-of-a-modern-faith-hardback-9780801452451","title":"Romantic Catholics; France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith (Hardback) 9780801452451","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRomantic Catholics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrance's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarol E. Harrison (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801452451\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 February 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 13 halftones - 13 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the book we find elegant writing, exciting narrative, and a colorful (for all their earnest religiosity) cast of characters.\u003c\/p\u003e - Joseph F. Byrnes (H-France Review) \u003cp\u003eBy uniting her expertise on the social and, especially, the gender history of the French middle class with a close and sympathetic understanding of post-Revolutionary Catholicism, Harrison has produced a book that allows readers not just to appreciate the interconnection between social and religious questions among early nineteenth-century Catholics but also to imagine the central figures of the period as human beings.\u003c\/p\u003e - Robert D. Priest (Journal of Modern History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this well-written and imaginatively structured book, Carol E. Harrison brings to life a cohort of nineteenth-century French men and women who argued that a reformed Catholicism could reconcile the divisions in French culture and society that were the legacy of revolution and empire. \u003c\/b\u003eThey include, most prominently, Charles de Montalembert, Pauline Craven, Amélie and Frédéric Ozanam, Léopoldine Hugo, Maurice de Guérin, and Victorine Monniot. The men and women whose stories appear in Romantic Catholics were bound together by filial love, friendship, and in some cases marriage. Harrison draws on their diaries, letters, and published works to construct a portrait of a generation linked by a determination to live their faith in a modern world. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRejecting both the atomizing force of revolutionary liberalism and the increasing intransigence of the church hierarchy, the romantic Catholics advocated a middle way, in which a revitalized Catholic faith and liberty formed the basis for modern society. Harrison traces the history of nineteenth-century France and, in parallel, the life course of these individuals as they grow up, learn independence, and take on the responsibilities and disappointments of adulthood. Although the shared goals of the romantic Catholics were never realized in French politics and culture, Harrison's work offers a significant corrective to the traditional understanding of the opposition between religion and the secular republican tradition in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Romantic Catholics and the Two Frances\u003cbr\u003e 1. First Communion: The Most Beautiful Day in the Lives and Deaths of Little Girls\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Education of Maurice de Guérin\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Dilemma of Obedience: Charles de Montalembert, Catholic Citizen\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pauline Craven's Holy Family: Writing the Modern Saint\u003cbr\u003e 5. Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam: Charity, Marriage, and the Catholic Social\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Free Church in a Free State: The Roman Question\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Devout Woman of the Third Republic and the Eclipse of Catholic Fraternity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52695027319064,"sku":"9780801452451","price":40.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/romantic-catholics-frances-postrevolutionary-generation-in-search-of-a-modern-faith-hardback-9780801452451","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}