Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

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

Goodrich, Jaime, 1978-

Writing habits : historicism, philosophy, and English Benedictine convents, 1600-1800 / Jaime Goodrich. - xi, 222 pages ; 24 cm. - Strode studies in early modern literature and culture . - Strode studies in early modern literature and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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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Buber, Martin, 1878-1965. Ich und du.


Benedictine nuns--Intellectual life--Europe--17th century.
Benedictine nuns--Intellectual life--Europe--18th century.
Catholic literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women authors, English--Religious life--History.--Europe
Presentism (Literary analysis)
Historicism.

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