Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Choudhury, Mita,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 12 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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