Writing habits : historicism, philosophy, and English Benedictine convents, 1600-1800

Writing habits : historicism, philosophy, and English Benedictine convents, 1600-1800 /

"An in-depth examination of a significant, but marginalized, body of literature: the texts produced in English Benedictine convents on the Continent between 1600 and 1800"--

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Goodrich, Jaime, 1978- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2021
Series:	Strode Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture Ser.
Subjects:	Buber, Martin, > 1878-1965. > Ich und du. Benedictine nuns > Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century. Benedictine nuns > Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century. Catholic literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women authors, English > Religious life > Europe > History. Presentism (Literary analysis) Historicism. historicism (theory)
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Buber and the Benedictines
Cloistered Gemeinschaft : administrative writing and communal formation
Religious communion : spiritual texts and liturgical rites
Monastic imagined communities : histories, life writing, and the divine call
From the convent to the counterpublic : controversial works and rival spiritual communities
Afterword. Thinking with the dead : notes toward a feminist philosophical turn.