| Diderot: La Religieuse Contributor(s): Diderot, Denis (Author), Lloyd, H. |
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ISBN: 1853995886 ISBN-13: 9781853995880 Publisher: Bristol Classical Press OUR PRICE: $30.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 Annotation: A leading figure of the Enlightenment, Denis Diderot fearlessly provoked the wrath of the French establishment through his writings. Aristocratic privilege, religious authority and obscurantism, colonialism, militarism, European assumptions of moral authority, the subordinate role of women, all were examined in a flow of polemical and innovative works in all genres (including the massive "Encyclopedie" of which he was the prime mover). "La Religieuse" (1760) was banned for many years because of its depiction of the cloistered fate forced upon many women, entombed in an atmosphere of neurosis and sexual repression. This controversial eighteenth-century work is now put under a modern theorist's microscope with the full critical apparatus that university students need |
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| BISAC Categories: - Art - Literary Criticism | European - General - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: 700 |
| Series: Bcp French Texts |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.48" W x 8.5" (0.63 lbs) 218 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A leading figure of the Enlightenment, Denis Diderot fearlessly provoked the wrath of the French establishment through his writings. Aristocratic privilege, religious authority and obscurantism, colonialism, militarism, European assumptions of moral authority, the subordinate role of women, all were examined in a flow of polemical and innovative works in all genres (including the massive Encyclopedie of which he was the prime mover). La Religieuse (1760) was banned for many years because of its depiction of the cloistered fate forced upon many women, entombed in an atmosphere of neurosis and sexual repression. This controversial eighteenth-century work is now put under a modern theorist's microscope with the full critical apparatus that university students need. |
