Barbara R. Woshinsky

Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600-1800 (eBook, PDF)

The Cloister Disclosed

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Produktbeschreibung

Blending history, architecture and literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. After the Council of Trent imposed strict claustral enclosure, the nun became an intensified object of desire in male-authored narratives. Convents also inspired "feminutopian" discourses by women writers. Recent criticism has identified spaces that women have made their own: the ruelle, the salon, the hearth of fairy tales. Woshinsky's book definitively adds the convent to this list.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351928670
• Artikelnr.: 49355325

Autorenporträt

Barbara Woshinsky, Professor Emerita at the University of Miami, has authored La Princesse de Clèves: the Tension of Elegance, The Linguistic Imperative in French Classical Literature and numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Introduction/opening
The body in early modern religious discourse (1). Hermitages of the soul: bodies as allegorical enclosures in Counter-Reformation writing
The body in early modern religious discourse (2) .Living temples or vases of ignominy: Jean-Pierre Camus and the paradoxes of female representation
Thresholds: crossing the boundaries of conventual space
Parlors: the implicated convent
Cells I: forced enclosure, erotic disclosure
Cells II: male appropriations of the nun's persona in Guilleragues's Lettres portugaises and Diderot's La Religieuse
Tombs/closing
Works cited
Index.