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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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