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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

By: Mita Choudhury

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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

By: Mita Choudhury

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.

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1501726994

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The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint

A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France

By: Mita Choudhury

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The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint

A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France

By: Mita Choudhury

This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early modern France, the Cadière affair was central to the volatile politics of 1730s France, a time when magistrates and lawyers were seeking to contain clerical power. Mita Choudhury’s examination of the trial sheds light on two important phenomena with broad historical implications: the questioning of traditional authority and the growing disquiet about the role of the sacred and divine in French society. Both contributed to the French people’s ever-increasing disenchantment with the church and the king. Choudhury builds her story through an extensive examination of archival material, including trial records, pamphlets, periodicals, and unpublished correspondence from witnesses. The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint offers new insights into how the eighteenth-century public interpreted the accusations and why the case consumed the public for years, developing from a local sex scandal to a referendum on religious authority and its place in French society and politics.

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Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain

An Archaeology of Empire

By: Mita Choudhury

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Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain

An Archaeology of Empire

By: Mita Choudhury

Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters of on-going dialogues about British identity during the Enlightenment. Thoughtfully interdisciplinary and with an allegiance to the culture which literary production engenders, this book describes how British identity emerges not despite of but due to its fluid, volatile, and subversive impulses and expressions. The imperial establishment—codified in the logics of the corporation, the academy, the cathedral, the theater, as well the private parlor or garden—derives its power and sustainability from scripting and then championing a solid resistance to precisely those subversive elements which threaten or undermine the foundations of order and liberalism in civil society. Choudhury argues that imperial Britain can best be understood in terms of this culture’s investment in spatial alignments which celebrated a radial interface with remote points of commercial interest. The volume contends Daniel Defoe, Arthur Onslow, David Garrick, Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander, Hans Sloane, Francis Barber, Samuel Johnson, Charles Burney, George Frideric Handel were not merely part of a dazzling line-up of the architects of empire. In retrospect, their contributions and various engagements reflect remarkably modern patterns of the corporatization of culture and this culture’s dependence on, and thus its collusion with, commerce.

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1351108735

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Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800

Identity, Performance, Empire

By: Mita Choudhury

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Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800

Identity, Performance, Empire

By: Mita Choudhury

In an original contribution to criticism, Interculturalism and Resistance demonstrates the eighteenth-century theatrical culture's ambivalence toward what has recently been described as the "exoticism of multiculturalism.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Bucknell University Press

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Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800

Identity, Performance, Empire

By: Mita Choudhury

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Identity, Performance, Empire

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The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint

A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France

By: Mita Choudhury

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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

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Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain

An Archaeology of Empire

By: Mita Choudhury

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Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France

Essays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley

By: Mita Choudhury

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Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France

Essays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley

By: Mita Choudhury

Written in honor of Dale K. Van Kley, leading specialist on religion and politics in the Old Regime and the French Revolution, these essays examine how Jansenist belief shaped enlightenment ideas, cultural identities, social relations and politics in France throughout the long eighteenth century. Van Kley's work has invited scholars to think beyond the traditional parameters of the Enlightenment and to consider how religious faith functioned in the broader context of Old Regime, Revolutionary, and post-Revolutionary France.In different ways, each essay challenges the idea of an inherent opposition between faith and Enlightenment, which likewise equates modernity with secularization. The authors within this volume address two main questions. Firstly, how did religious belief continue to shape identities and experiences in the long eighteenth century? Secondly, how does this narrative of enduring religious belief in eighteenth-century France help historians rethink the Enlightenment and the French Revolution?The various methodologies used by the contributors illustrate how belief, Enlightenment, and Revolution coexisted and indeed co-mingled in different contexts: politics and political culture, the social and cultural history of ideas, and the history of material culture. Winner of Baylor University's 2019 Guittard Book Award for Historical Scholarship. Mita Choudhury is professor of History at Vassar College. Her publications have focused on eighteenth-century French politics, religion, and gender. Daniel J. Watkins is assistant professor of History at Baylor University. His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of eighteenth-century France and the Catholic Church.

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The World of Elizabeth Inchbald

Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century

By: Daniel J. Ennis,E. Joe Johnson

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The World of Elizabeth Inchbald

Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century

By: Daniel J. Ennis,E. Joe Johnson

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald’s biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918–2013), the contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context around Inchbald’s life and work, with essays ranging from the Restoration to the nineteenth century. Ranging from visual culture, theater history, literary analyses and to historical investigations, the essays not only present a fuller picture of cultural life in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century, but also reflect a range of disciplinary perspectives. The collection concludes with the final scholarly presentation of the late Professor Jenkins, a study of the eighteenth-century English newspaper The World (1753-1756).

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Rutgers University Press

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Book's by Mita Choudhury

Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint

The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint

Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain

Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain

Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800

Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800

Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800

Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800

The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint

The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint

Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain

Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain

Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France

Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France

The World of Elizabeth Inchbald

The World of Elizabeth Inchbald

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