The Secularization of Society?

Mass Culture? Separate Spheres and Universal Exhibitions

Background Reading
Merriman, History of Modern Europe, vol. 2, on Second-Empire France (pp. 794-804), urbanization and industrialization (pp. 814-847), education and religious life (pp. 847-852), and consumption (pp. 852-857).

Discussion: 18-19 Feb. 2009, Belief in Europe
Students whose last names begin with A-H must submit written answers to Reading Questions this week.
Review of Charles Kemen, The Marpingen Apparitions, from authentic German Sources, published in The Dublin Review (1878), available here.

Emile Zola, Au bonheur des dames (The Ladies' Paradise), 1883; selection (chapter nine). The full text is also available.

Further Reading
Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982).

David Blackbourn, Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany (1993).

Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century (1975).

Chris Clark and Wolfram Kaiser, eds., Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2003).

T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1985; 1999).

Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: Vision and Modernity in the Ninteenth Century (1990).

Dean de la Motte and Jeannene Przyblyski, eds., Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France (1999).

Caroline Ford, Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France (2005).

Michael Fried, Manet's Modernism: or, the Face of Painting in the 1860s (1996).

David P. Jordan, Transforming Paris: the Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann (1995).

Patrice Higonnet, Paris, Capital of the World (2002).

Michael Miller, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store (1980). [see also the Bibliothèque Nationale's on-line exhibition about Au Bonheur des dames (The Ladies' Paradise), Zola's novel about a big Paris department store.]

Robert Nemes,Once and Future Budapest (2005).

Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: Industrialization and the Perception of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century (1986).

Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (1981).