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

• Autore: Woshinsky Barbara R.
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 271.90044
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Imagining women's conventual spaces in France, 1600-1800
• ISBN: 1-351-92866-X; 1-315-25264-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154611303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Women and gender in the early modern world.