Mary Dunn

The Cruelest of All Mothers

Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

Mary Dunn is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern Christianity at St. Louis University. Her first book, From Mother to Son: Selected Letters from Marie de l¿Incarnation to Claude Martin, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. She has also published articles in the Canadian Historical Review, Quebec Studies, and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, among other journals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780823282722
• ISBN-10: 0823282724
• Artikelnr.: 51493184

Autorenporträt

Mary Dunn

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 Explication: Representations of the Abandonment in the Relations, the
Letters, and the Vie 21
2 Explanation: Contextualizing the Abandonment within Seventeenth- Century
French Family Life 47
3 Explanation: The Marginalization of Motherhood in the Christian Tradition
71
4 Explanation: Maternal Hagiographies and Spiritualities of Abandonment in
Seventeenth-Century France 98
5 Motherhood Refigured: Kristeva, Maternal Sacrifice, and the Imitation of
Christ 124
Afterword/Afterward 149
Notes 151
Bibliography 187
Index 201