Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture / / Mita Choudhury.
Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers, religious pamphleteers, and men of letters r...
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Choudhury, Mita, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture / Mita Choudhury. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2004 1 online resource (248 p.) : 12 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Authority in the Eighteenth-Century Convent -- CHAPTER 2. Martyrs into Citizens -- CHAPTER 3. Despotic Habits -- CHAPTER 4. The Vocation Forcée in French Political and Literary Culture, 1740-1789 -- CHAPTER 5. School of Virtue, School of Vice -- CHAPTER 6. From Victims to Fanatics -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers, religious pamphleteers, and men of letters repeatedly asked, "Who should control the female convent and women religious?" These sources chronicled the conflicts between nuns and the male clergy, among nuns themselves, and between nuns and their families, conflicts that were presented to the public in the context of potent issues such as despotism, citizenship, female education, and sexuality.The cloister operated as a symbol of despotism, the equivalent of the Sultan's seraglio or the King's Bastille. Before 1770, lawyers and magistrates praised nuns as the personification of virtuous Christian women, often victims vulnerable to those who would use them to further their own political ends. After 1770, men of letters evaluated nuns according to more secular norms, and concluded that the convent had no purpose in society, except as a reminder of the problems inherent in the Old Regime. Choudhury elaborates on how nuns were not always passive entities, mere objects to be shaped by the political needs of others. But because they relied on men in order to make their voices heard, the place of women religious in the public sphere was a complex one based on negotiations between female action and male subjectivity. During the French Revolution, whatever support they had enjoyed was lost as republicans and moderates began to see nuns as potentially disruptive to the social order, family life, and revolutionary values. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Europe. History. HISTORY / Europe / France. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801441103 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501726996 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501726996 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501726996/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Authority in the Eighteenth-Century Convent -- CHAPTER 2. Martyrs into Citizens -- CHAPTER 3. Despotic Habits -- CHAPTER 4. The Vocation Forcée in French Political and Literary Culture, 1740-1789 -- CHAPTER 5. School of Virtue, School of Vice -- CHAPTER 6. From Victims to Fanatics -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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