Day 10 -- Culture Wars

Today's Presentation Topics

 

The Secular Belief in Science and Progress

An 18th Century Inspiration for 19th Century Believers in Science

• Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Human Mind (Selections) (1793)

Maurice Crosland, "Popular science and the arts : challenges to cultural authority  in France under the Second Empire," British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 34 (2001), 301–322.

• The Popularization of Science
• Jules Verne and the Creation of Science Fiction

Miriam R. Levin, “Bringing the Future to Earth in Paris, 1851–1914"

• A Vision of Progress
• The Ideal of Progress in the Second Empire

Visual Representations of the Past

• Images of Past

Visual Representations of the Future

• The Work of Albert Robida
• Cigarette Cards

Rosalind Williams, Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late 19th Century France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982)

• The Electrical Fairyland

Postcard of the Shrine to the Virgin Mary at Lourdes

The Battle for the Soul of France

Gordon Wright, France in Modern Times

• The Falloux Laws

Frederick Brown, The Battle for the Soul of France; Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2010), pp.3-5,

• Warring Memories of the War and the Commune
• Origins of the Conflict

Charles Sowerwine, “The Social and Cultural Bases of Republicanism” in France since 1870: Culture, Politics, and Society (Palgrave: Houndmills, U.K., 2001), pp. 40-44.

• Reason and the Republican Project
• Catholic Conservativism
• Anti-Clericalism

Jean-Marie Mayeur and Madeleine Reberioux, The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914 (Cambridge: Canbridge University Press, 1984), pp.,101-115.

• Religious Belief in the 3rd Republic

Pope Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors