Barbara R. Woshinsky

Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600?1800

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. R

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Produktdetails

• Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781032921143
• ISBN-10: 1032921145
• Artikelnr.: 71601584

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.