Mita Choudhury Books
The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seductio...
Read MoreInterculturalism and resistance in the London theater, 1660-1800
"In Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, Mita Choudhury argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression and register of the anxieties and tensions of a...
Read MoreMonstrous Dreams of Reason
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"This collection of twelve previously unpublished essays explores the conflicts sparked by the extraordinary range of new ideas and material possibilities in the eighteenth-century British Empire,...
Read MoreConvents and Nuns in Eighteenth Century French Politics and Culture
"Representations of convents and nuns took on power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, M...
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