Author: Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600002462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Diderot studies
Author: Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600002462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Diderot Studies
Author: Diana GuiragossianPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600004589
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Nun
Author: Denis DiderotDiderot Studies
Author: Otis FellowsPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600039390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture
Author: Mita ChoudhuryPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501726994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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 repeatedly asked, "Who should control the female convent and women religious?" These sources chronicled the conflicts between nuns and the male clergy, among nuns themselves, and between nuns and their families, conflicts that were presented to the public in the context of potent issues such as despotism, citizenship, female education, and sexuality.The cloister operated as a symbol of despotism, the equivalent of the Sultan's seraglio or the King's Bastille. Before 1770, lawyers and magistrates praised nuns as the personification of virtuous Christian women, often victims vulnerable to those who would use them to further their own political ends. After 1770, men of letters evaluated nuns according to more secular norms, and concluded that the convent had no purpose in society, except as a reminder of the problems inherent in the Old Regime. Choudhury elaborates on how nuns were not always passive entities, mere objects to be shaped by the political needs of others. But because they relied on men in order to make their voices heard, the place of women religious in the public sphere was a complex one based on negotiations between female action and male subjectivity. During the French Revolution, whatever support they had enjoyed was lost as republicans and moderates began to see nuns as potentially disruptive to the social order, family life, and revolutionary values.
The Eighteenth-century French Novel
Author: Vivienne MylnePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719001741
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
La Religieuse
Author: Denis DiderotStudies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Author: The Comic Philosophes
Author: Stephen WernerPublisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479404
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This work is a study of philosophe fiction through comic irony that is its unifying feature. Readings are offered of exemplary philosophe narratives from Les Lettres persanes to Candide, Le Neveu de Rameau to Justine, as well as an analysis of the evolution of irony from the classical world of Montesquieu and Voltaire to the modern (and subversive) conceptions of Diderot and Sade. Professor Werner argues for a new understanding of comic irony as inseparable from the philosophe aesthetic and, through Sade, an expansion of its usual canon of authors.
The Literature of Lesbianism
Author: Terry CastlePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231125109
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. This anthology registers that fact in as encompassing and enlightening a way as possible. Castle explores the emergence and transformation of the "idea of lesbianism."