French women authors : the significance of the spiritual (1400-2000) /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Haskett, Kelsey L. (Kelsey Lee), Nelson, Holly Faith, 1966-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2013]
Subjects:	French literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Spiritual life in literature.

Table of Contents:

The spiritual quest of French women authors: an introduction / Kelsey L. Haskett, Holly Faith Nelson
"Spiritum nolite extinguere": reading religion in the works of Christine de Pizan / Holly Faith Nelson, Katharine Bubel
Rhetorical and editorial strategies of spreading l'Évangile in Marguerite de Navarre's Le Miroir / Sinda Vanderpool
Stars, stones, ships, and suckling children: Guyon's metaphorical journeys toward union with God / Deborah Sullivan-Trainor
Neither prude nor coquette: the heroine's spiritual journey in Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves / Hadley Wood
Tempered witness to the power of the soul in enlightenment Fance: four novels by Charrière, Cottin, and Guérin de Tencin / Joanne M. McKeown
Spirituality and social justice in the novels of George Sand / Kelsey L. Haskett
Simone Weil: ambivalence in search of God / Anne M. François
Duras and the desire for spiritual transformation / Kelsey L. Haskett
Spiritual desire and domestic life in Malika Mokeddem's La Nuit de la lézarde / Susan Udry.