Nicky Hallett

The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600-1800 (eBook, ePUB)

Early Modern 'Convents of Pleasure'

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 It draws on a range of previously unpublished writings - chronicles, confessions, letters, poetry, personal testimony of various kinds - to explore and challenge assumptions about sensory origins.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317016328
• Artikelnr.: 44863571

Autorenporträt

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.