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  title info:
    title: Refugee nuns, the French Revolution, and British literature and culture
  name:
    name part: Moutray, Tonya
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In eighteenth-century literature, negative representations of Catholic nuns and convents were pervasive. Yet, during the politico-religious crises initiated by the French Revolution, a striking literary shift took place as British writers championed the cause of nuns, lauded their socially relevant work, and addressed the attraction of the convent for British women. Interactions with Catholic religious, including priests and nuns, Tonya J Moutray argues, motivated writers, including Hester Thrale Piozzi, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to revaluate the historical and contemporary utility of religious refugees. Beyond an analysis of literary texts, Moutray's study also examines nuns' personal and collective narratives, as well as news coverage of their arrival to England, enabling a nuanced investigation of a range of issues, including nuns' displacement and imprisonment in France, their rhetorical and practical strategies to resist authorities, representations of refugee migration to and resettlement in England, relationships with benefactors and locals, and the legal status of "English" nuns and convents in England, including their work in recruitment and education. Moutray shows how writers and the media negotiated the multivalent figure of the nun during the 1790s, shaping British perceptions of nuns and convents during a time critical to their survival"--
  table of contents: Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Encountering convents abroad: Hester Thrale Piozzi, Ann Radcliffe, William Cole, Samuel Paterson, and Philip Thicknesse -- Spoiled economies and violated virgins: the Benedictines of Montargis -- Abbé Augustin Barruel, and the French emigration -- Resistant virtue in flight: the Blue Nuns, Helen Maria Williams, and reluctant returns -- Refugee resources and competitive curricula: Frances Burney -- Charlotte.
  note: by Tonya J. Moutray.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: Travelers' writings, English
    temporal: 18th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English prose literature
    temporal: 18th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Monasticism and religious orders for women
    geographic: France
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Monasticism and religious orders for women
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: British
    topic: Public opinion
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: British
    topic: Attitudes
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Protestants
    geographic: England
    topic: Attitudes
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  classification: PR769 .M68 2016
  classification: 820.9/382719
  identifier: 9781409435907
  identifier: 1409435903
  identifier: 9781409435914
  identifier: 9781472405760
  identifier: 2015039368
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151119
    record change date: 20160617122552.0
    record identifier: in00003794322
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng