Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God Gail Turley Houston.
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TextSeries: Literature, religion, and postsecular studiesPublisher: Ohio State University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (xi, 181 p.)ISBN: 9780814270219; 0814270212Subject(s): Goddess religion in literature | Religion in literature | Religion and literature | Women authors, English -- 19th century | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation | Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation | Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 -- Criticism and interpretation | Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 -- Criticism and interpretation | Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretationGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 820.9/928709034 LOC classification: PR115 | .H68 2013Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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