Imagining women's conventual spaces in France, 1600-1800
Subtitle: the cloister disclosed
By: by Barbara R. Woshinsky.
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780754667544
Subjects: French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism; French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Convents in literature; Space and time in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Body in early modern religious discourse; title: Hermitage of the soul: bodies as allegorical enclosures in counter-reformation writing; title: Body in early modern religious discourse; title: Living temples or vases of ignominy: Jean-pierre Camus and the paradoxes of female representation; title: Thresholds: crossing the boundaries of conventual space; title: Parlors: the implicated convent; title: Cells I: forced enclosure, erotic disclosure; title: Cells II: male appropriations of the nun's persona; title: Tombs/closing.