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Heroic Hearts - Sentiment, Saints, and Authority in Modern France (Hardcover)
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Heroic Hearts - Sentiment, Saints, and Authority in Modern France (Hardcover)
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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 actors for a project of cultural restoration. With their
emphasis on sacrifice and heroism, these cultural currents offered
liberatory potential. Heroic Hearts examines not only general
cultural currents but their adoption by particular women, each of
whom was privileged with access to money and social influence. The
words of three extraordinary women, Philippine Duchesne, Pauline
Jaricot, and Zelie Martin, offer powerful testimony to their
agency. These women's rejection of "traditional" domesticity,
believed to be a formative influence for their class, demonstrates
how women understood the imperative to change the world outside of
their natural families. Their writings, which demonstrate the
appeal of sentimental virtue, show us how women's public lives
could exist not in opposition to prevailing religious and social
ideals but because of them.
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