Imagining Women''s Conventual Spaces in France, 16001800 - The Cloister Disclosed

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Zusammenfassung

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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Barbara R. Woshinsky, Woshinsky Barbara R.
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032921143
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3292114-3
• Seiten: 362
• Serie: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Vor- und Frühgeschichte; History, RELIGION / General, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Religion: general, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Literature: history & criticism, History and Archaeology, Literature: history and criticism, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards