Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Shaping the Sentimental Order -- 2. Contesting Oppression -- 3. Seeing the Path to Heaven -- 4. Preferring Jesus Christ to Any Man -- 5. Changing the World -- 6. Becoming a Saint -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
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
