French Women Authors : The Significance of the Spiritual, 1400-2000.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haskett, Kelsey.

Contributor:

Nelson, Holly Faith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, French.

Spirituality in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : University of Delaware Press, 2012.

Summary:

French Women Authors examines the importance afforded the spiritual in the lives and works of French women authors over the centuries, thereby highlighting both the significance of spiritually informed writings in French literature in general, as well as the specific contribution made by women writers. Eleven different authors have been selected for this collection, representing major literary periods from the medieval to the (post)modern.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Note on Translation

The Spiritual Quest of French Women Authors

"Spiritum nolite extinguere"

Rhetorical and Editorial Strategies of Spreading l'Évangile in Marguerite de Navarre's Le Miroir

Stars, Stones, Ships, and Suckling Children

Neither Prude nor Coquette

Tempered Witness to the Power of the Soul in Enlightenment France

Spirituality and Social Justice in the Novels of George Sand

Simone Weil

Duras and the Desire for Spiritual Transformation

Spiritual Desire and Domestic Life in Malika Mokeddem's La Nuit de la lézarde

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors.

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ISBN:

9781644530894

1644530899

OCLC:

1245666915