Author: Vincent Joseph Pitts
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801864667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Viewed through her writings, the events of Mademoiselle's life offer a unique perspective on several aspects of seventeenth-century France: the evolution of the Bourbon monarchy over the course of the century, the dynamics of aristocratic resistance to the centralizing power of the state, and the debate over the role of women in public and private life.
La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France
Author: Vincent Joseph Pitts
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801864667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Viewed through her writings, the events of Mademoiselle's life offer a unique perspective on several aspects of seventeenth-century France: the evolution of the Bourbon monarchy over the course of the century, the dynamics of aristocratic resistance to the centralizing power of the state, and the debate over the role of women in public and private life.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801864667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Viewed through her writings, the events of Mademoiselle's life offer a unique perspective on several aspects of seventeenth-century France: the evolution of the Bourbon monarchy over the course of the century, the dynamics of aristocratic resistance to the centralizing power of the state, and the debate over the role of women in public and private life.
Manuel Du Bibliophile
Author: Gabriel Peignot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Catalogue de Livres Anciens Et Modernes
Author: Charles Porquet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
Mémoirs of the Count de Grammont
Author: Anthony Hamilton (Count)
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Princess of the Old World
Author: Eleanor Catherine Price
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600–1800
Author: Barbara R. Woshinsky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135192866X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
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
Book Description
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.
Women and the Politics of Self-representation in Seventeenth-century France
Author: Patricia Francis Cholakian
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"This book is an exploration of six neglected and under-valued self-narratives composed in the period stretching from the reign of Henri IV through that of Louis XIV. Cholakian reads these self-narratives as gestures of political resistance to the marginalization of women during the ancient regime."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"This book is an exploration of six neglected and under-valued self-narratives composed in the period stretching from the reign of Henri IV through that of Louis XIV. Cholakian reads these self-narratives as gestures of political resistance to the marginalization of women during the ancient regime."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved