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The woman priest : a translation of Sylvain Maréchal's novella, La femme abbé / translation and introduction by Sheila Delany.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maréchal, Sylvain, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--France--Fiction.
- Catholic Church.
- Impersonation--Fiction.
- Impersonation.
- Women--France--Social conditions--Fiction.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (105 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "My God! Pardon me if I have dared to make sacred things serve a profane love; but it is you who have put passion into our hearts; they are not crimes-I feel this in the purity of my intentions." -Agatha, writing to Zoé 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 became part of British-run 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-77212-289-0
- OCLC:
- 947134000
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