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Altered habits : reconsidering the nun in fiction

Title
Altered habits : reconsidering the nun in fiction / Manuela Mourão.
Author
Mourão, Manuela
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2002], ©2002.

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Description
xxv, 139 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Nuns in literature
  • Fiction > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-136) and index.
Contents
Introduction: "A Convenient and Blissful Recess" -- 1. Early-Modern Stereotypes -- 2. Evil Abbesses and Naive Victims: Figuring the Nun in Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- 3. In the Name of Love: Heartbroken Nuns in Romantic Fiction -- 4. Nuns' Stories: Reiterating the Stereotypes -- 5. Nuns' (and Other) Voices: Challenging the Stereotypes -- Epilogue: "The Blank Page"
ISBN
0813024706 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002018792
OCLC
  • ocm49383687
  • SCSB-4283370
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries