Houston, Gail Turley,  1950- <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-170) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontė'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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814270219 0814270212 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Eliot, George, 1819-1880 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Jameson, Mrs.  1794-1860 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Brontė, Charlotte, 1816-1855 --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Goddess religion in literature.<br/>Religion in literature.<br/>Religion and literature.<br/>Women authors, English--19th century.<br/>English literature--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR115  / .H68 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>820.9/928709034