Author: René Boylesve
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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A Gentlewoman of France
Author: René Boylesve
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century
Author: Julia Kavanagh
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Woman in France during eighteenth century
Author: Julia Kavanagh
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century
Author: Charlotte Corday
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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A History of France
Author: Elizabeth (Cartwright) Penrose
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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A History of France ... New and revised edition, illustrated with numerous woodcuts
Author: Mrs. Markham
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600–1800
Author: Barbara R. Woshinsky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135192866X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters two centuries later. In the intervening time, women within convent walls were both captives and refugees from an outside world dominated by patriarchal power and discourses. Yet despite locks and bars, the cloister remained "porous" to privileged visitors. Others could catch a glimpse of veiled nuns through the elaborate grills separating cloistered space from the church, provoking imaginative accounts of convent life. Not surprisingly, the figure of the confined religious woman represents an intensified object of desire in male-authored narrative. The convent also spurred "feminutopian" discourses composed by women: convents become safe houses for those fleeing bad marriages or trying to construct an ideal, pastoral life, as a counter model to the male-dominated court or household. Recent criticism has identified certain privileged spaces that early modern women made their own: the ruelle, the salon, the hearth of fairy tale-telling. Woshinsky's book definitively adds the convent to this list.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135192866X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters two centuries later. In the intervening time, women within convent walls were both captives and refugees from an outside world dominated by patriarchal power and discourses. Yet despite locks and bars, the cloister remained "porous" to privileged visitors. Others could catch a glimpse of veiled nuns through the elaborate grills separating cloistered space from the church, provoking imaginative accounts of convent life. Not surprisingly, the figure of the confined religious woman represents an intensified object of desire in male-authored narrative. The convent also spurred "feminutopian" discourses composed by women: convents become safe houses for those fleeing bad marriages or trying to construct an ideal, pastoral life, as a counter model to the male-dominated court or household. Recent criticism has identified certain privileged spaces that early modern women made their own: the ruelle, the salon, the hearth of fairy tale-telling. Woshinsky's book definitively adds the convent to this list.
A History of France, from the Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar to the Present Time
Author: Mrs. Markham
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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A history of France, from the conquest of Gaule by Julius Caesar to the present time
Author: Elizabeth Penrose
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Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Languages : en
Pages : 564
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The Secret History of the Court of France under Louis XV
Author: Challice
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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