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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154611303321

Autore

Woshinsky Barbara R.

Titolo

Imagining women's conventual spaces in France, 1600-1800 : the cloister disclosed / / Barbara R. Woshinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-03-292114-5

1-351-92866-X

1-315-25264-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Women and gender in the early modern world

Disciplina

271.90044

Soggetti

French literature - 16th century - History and criticism

French literature - 17th century - History and criticism

Convents in literature

Space and time in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The body in early modern religious discours (1). Hermitages of the soul : bodies as allegorical enclosures in counter-reformation writing -- 2. The body in early modern religious discourse (2). Living temples or vases of ignominy : Jean-Pierre Camus and the paradoxes of female representation -- 3. Thresholds : crossing the boundaries of conventual space -- 4. Parlors : the implicated convent -- 5. Cells I : forced enclosure, erotic disclosure -- 6. Cells II : male appropriations of the nun's persona in Guilleragues's Lettres portugaises and Diderot's La religieuse -- 7. Tombs/closing.

Sommario/riassunto

Blending history with literary analysis, this study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters two centuries later.