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Heroic hearts [electronic resource] : sentiment, saints, and authority in modern France / Jennifer J. Popiel.
Heroic Hearts examines how young women in nineteenth-century France, authorized by a widespread cultural discourse that privileged individual authority over domesticity and marriage, sought to change the world.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781496227225
- ISBN: 1496227220
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Shaping the Sentimental Order -- 2. Contesting Oppression -- 3. Seeing the Path to Heaven -- 4. Preferring Jesus Christ to Any Man -- 5. Changing the World -- 6. Becoming a Saint -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
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| Subject: | Church and the world > History > 19th century. Religion > Social aspects > France > History > 19th century. Women > Identity > History > 19th century. Sentimentalism > France > History > 19th century. Catholic women > France > History > 19th century. |
| Genre: | History |
