Elizabeth Emery, an associate professor of French at Montclair State University, lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Laurie Postlewate is a senior lecturer in French at Barnard College and lives in New York.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction       PARTSAINTS AS INSPIRATION FOR ART, LITERATURE AND MUSIC1. “Sur un vitrail d'église”: Structures and Sources in Flaubert’s “Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier”      2. When the Saints Go Marching In: Popular Performances of La Tentation de Saint Antoine and Sainte Geneviève de Paris at the Chat Noir Shadow Theater      PARTTHE “SCIENTIFIC” EXAMINATION OF SAINTS’ VISIONS3. Odilon Redon’s Temptation of Saint Anthony Lithographs      4. The Golden Legend in the Fin de Siècle: Zola’s Le Rêve and Its Reception      PART THREETHE STRUGGLE TO RECONTEXTUALIZE HAGIOGRAPHY5. Translatio Lidwinae: The Adaptation of Medieval Sources in Huysmans’ Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam      6. Discourse on Method: Hippolyte Delehaye’s Légendes hagiographiques      PART FOURHAGIOGRAPHY AND THE CULT OF THE NATION7. Polychromatic Piety: Saints According to Anatole France      8. Unofficial and Secular Saint in Integral Nationalist Discourse: Maurice Barrès’ Literary Jeanne d’Arc      Conclusion      Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources      About the Contributors      Index

“well-selected essays...fascinating collection”—History: Reviews of New Books.

Elizabeth Emery, an associate professor of French at Montclair State University, lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Laurie Postlewate is a senior lecturer in French at Barnard College and lives in New York.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction       PARTSAINTS AS INSPIRATION FOR ART, LITERATURE AND MUSIC1. “Sur un vitrail d'église”: Structures and Sources in Flaubert’s “Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier”      2. When the Saints Go Marching In: Popular Performances of La Tentation de Saint Antoine and Sainte Geneviève de Paris at the Chat Noir Shadow Theater      PARTTHE “SCIENTIFIC” EXAMINATION OF SAINTS’ VISIONS3. Odilon Redon’s Temptation of Saint Anthony Lithographs      4. The Golden Legend in the Fin de Siècle: Zola’s Le Rêve and Its Reception      PART THREETHE STRUGGLE TO RECONTEXTUALIZE HAGIOGRAPHY5. Translatio Lidwinae: The Adaptation of Medieval Sources in Huysmans’ Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam      6. Discourse on Method: Hippolyte Delehaye’s Légendes hagiographiques      PART FOURHAGIOGRAPHY AND THE CULT OF THE NATION7. Polychromatic Piety: Saints According to Anatole France      8. Unofficial and Secular Saint in Integral Nationalist Discourse: Maurice Barrès’ Literary Jeanne d’Arc      Conclusion      Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources      About the Contributors      Index

“well-selected essays...fascinating collection”—History: Reviews of New Books.

Elizabeth Emery, an associate professor of French at Montclair State University, lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Laurie Postlewate is a senior lecturer in French at Barnard College and lives in New York.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction       PARTSAINTS AS INSPIRATION FOR ART, LITERATURE AND MUSIC1. “Sur un vitrail d'église”: Structures and Sources in Flaubert’s “Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier”      2. When the Saints Go Marching In: Popular Performances of La Tentation de Saint Antoine and Sainte Geneviève de Paris at the Chat Noir Shadow Theater      PARTTHE “SCIENTIFIC” EXAMINATION OF SAINTS’ VISIONS3. Odilon Redon’s Temptation of Saint Anthony Lithographs      4. The Golden Legend in the Fin de Siècle: Zola’s Le Rêve and Its Reception      PART THREETHE STRUGGLE TO RECONTEXTUALIZE HAGIOGRAPHY5. Translatio Lidwinae: The Adaptation of Medieval Sources in Huysmans’ Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam      6. Discourse on Method: Hippolyte Delehaye’s Légendes hagiographiques      PART FOURHAGIOGRAPHY AND THE CULT OF THE NATION7. Polychromatic Piety: Saints According to Anatole France      8. Unofficial and Secular Saint in Integral Nationalist Discourse: Maurice Barrès’ Literary Jeanne d’Arc      Conclusion      Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources      About the Contributors      Index

“well-selected essays...fascinating collection”—History: Reviews of New Books.