Offering a comprehensive analysis of newly-uncovered manuscripts from two English convents near Antwerp, this study gives unprecedented insight into the role of the senses in enclosed religious communities during the period 1600-1800. It draws on a range of previously unpublished writings - chronicles, confessions, letters, poetry, personal testimony of various kinds - to explore and challenge assumptions about sensory origins.
Offering a comprehensive analysis of newly-uncovered manuscripts from two English convents near Antwerp, this study gives unprecedented insight into the role of the senses in enclosed religious communities during the period 1600-1800. It draws on a range of previously unpublished writings - chronicles, confessions, letters, poetry, personal testimony of various kinds - to explore and challenge assumptions about sensory origins.
Nicky Hallett is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Introduction: touching nuns; In which Mrs Eyre protects the impressionable souls of her tender daughters; Becoming behaviour: two cases of sensational reading; Titillation and texture: the sixth sense of handsome handid nuns ; Of taste and tongue: a very slippery member ; Still small voices: sounds, sibilance and silences in early modern convents; Of smell and space: evaporating subjects ; Eagle-eyed nuns: envisioning vision in contemplative communities; Sensate certainty: a conclusion of sorts; Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Introduction: touching nuns; In which Mrs Eyre protects the impressionable souls of her tender daughters; Becoming behaviour: two cases of sensational reading; Titillation and texture: the sixth sense of handsome handid nuns ; Of taste and tongue: a very slippery member ; Still small voices: sounds, sibilance and silences in early modern convents; Of smell and space: evaporating subjects ; Eagle-eyed nuns: envisioning vision in contemplative communities; Sensate certainty: a conclusion of sorts; Bibliography; Index.
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