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Informationen zum Autor Mary Dunn is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern Christianity at St. Louis University. Her first book, From Mother to Son: Selected Letters from Marie de l'Incarnation to Claude Martin , was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. She has also published articles in the Canadian Historical Review , Quebec Studies , and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , among other journals. Klappentext Mary Dunn is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern Christianity at St. Louis University. Her first book! From Mother to Son: Selected Letters from Marie de l¿Incarnation to Claude Martin ! was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. She has also published articles in the Canadian Historical Review ! Quebec Studies ! and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion ! among other journals. Zusammenfassung Abandonment defined thirty-three years of correspondence between Marie de l'Incarnation and the son she had left behind in favor of religious life Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 Explication: Representations of the Abandonment in the Relations, the Letters, and the Vie 21 2 Explanation: Contextualizing the Abandonment within Seventeenth- Century French Family Life 47 3 Explanation: The Marginalization of Motherhood in the Christian Tradition 71 4 Explanation: Maternal Hagiographies and Spiritualities of Abandonment in Seventeenth-Century France 98 5 Motherhood Refigured: Kristeva, Maternal Sacrifice, and the Imitation of Christ 124 Afterword/Afterward 149 Notes 151 Bibliography 187 Index 201
