Heroic Hearts: Sentiment, Saints, and Authority in Modern France

by 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. Jennifer J. Popiel offers a recuperative reading of sentimental authority, especially in its relationship to religious vocabulary. Heroic Hearts uncovers the ways sentimental appeals authorized women to trust themselves as modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496219619
• ISBN13: 9781496219619
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"