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

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

The Cloister Disclosed

Woshinsky, Barbara R.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2010

362

Dura

Inglês

9780754667544

15 a 20 dias

Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. This title focuses on two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters two centuries later.
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.
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