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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Reimagining the Republican ideal: Work, art, and the body in Colette's Belle Epoque Abstract: This dissertation explores the cultural implications of the French Third Republic's educational system through the prism of one woman's life and work, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954). As a product of the sweeping instructional revolution that secularized and modernized French education at the end of the nineteenth century, Colette provides a means of uncovering and describing the "mental equipment" with which a generation of schoolchildren approached adult questions of work, physical health, and artistic production. I argue that in combining a glorification of hard work and traditional gender roles with a radical call to cultivate the active life of the mind and body, the Third Republican morale laïque taught children to develop their physical and interior selves in important new ways. I analyze the textbooks, pedagogical methods, and circles of republican sociability in the 1870s and '80s, particularly in Colette's rural village, and demonstrate how dynamic pedagogical innovations and a rich associative life transformed official rhetoric into a powerful cultural initiative. |
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