Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France

by Nora Martin Peterson

Book Overview

Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France was inspired by the observation that small slips of the flesh (involuntary confessions of the flesh) are omnipresent in early modern texts of many kinds. These slips (which bear similarities to what we would today call the Freudian slip) disrupt and destabilize readings of body, self, and text-three categories whose mutual boundaries this book seeks to soften-but also, in their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644530341
• ISBN13: 9781644530344
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher