Heroic hearts: sentiment, saints, and authority in modern France
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Shaping the Sentimental Order -- 2. Contesting Oppression -- 3. Seeing the Path to Heaven -- 4. Preferring Jesus Christ to Any Man -- 5. Changing the World -- 6. Becoming a...
| Σύνοψη: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Shaping the Sentimental Order -- 2. Contesting Oppression -- 3. Seeing the Path to Heaven -- 4. Preferring Jesus Christ to Any Man -- 5. Changing the World -- 6. Becoming a Saint -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Heroic Hearts examines how young women in nineteenth-century France, authorized by a widespread cultural discourse that privileged individual authority over domesticity and marriage, sought to change the world |
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| Φυσική περιγραφή: | 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4962-2722-5 1-4962-2722-0 |
