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Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God Gail Turley Houston. - 1 online resource (xi, 181 p.) - Literature, religion, and postsecular studies . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-170) and index.

Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780814270219 0814270212

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 --Criticism and interpretation.
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 --Criticism and interpretation.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 --Criticism and interpretation.
Jameson, Mrs. 1794-1860 --Criticism and interpretation.
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 --Criticism and interpretation.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Goddess religion in literature.
Religion in literature.
Religion and literature.
Women authors, English--19th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR115 / .H68 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/928709034