Woman Priest
Subtitle: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Novella, la Femme Abbé
Publisher: University of Alberta Press; University of Alberta Press, an Imprint of University of Alberta Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781772121230
Subjects: Paris (france), fiction; Fiction, general
Description: "In pre-revolutionary Paris, a young woman falls for a handsome young priest. To be near him, she dresses as a man, enters his seminary, and is invited to become a fully ordained Catholic priest, a career forbidden to women then as now. Sylvain Maréchal's epistolary novella offers a biting rebuke to religious institutions and a hypocritical society; its views on love, marriage, class, and virtue remain relevant today. The book ends in la Nouvelle France, which had become part of Canada during Maréchal's lifetime. With thorough notes and introduction by Sheila Delany, this first translation of Maréchal's novella, La femme abbé, brings a little-known but revelatory text to the attention of readers interested in French history and literature, history of the novel, women's studies, and religious studies."--