Detention is always experienced as “perfect solitude”. Imprisonment has provided inmates with an introspective space that has inspired memoirs and epistolary literature. As incarceration shaped the experience of individuals, their writings definitively left their mark on the identity of Port-Royal.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-12603-4
EAN:9782406126034
ISSN: 1636-7332
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12605-8
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 12-15-2021
Language: French
Keyword: Seventeenth-century literature, Port-Royal, detention, incarceration, memorial literature, epistolary literature
