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Victorian women writers, radical grandmothers, and the gendering of God
- Title
- Victorian women writers, radical grandmothers, and the gendering of God / Gail Turley Houston.
- Author
- Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-
- Publication
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 181 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Literature, religion, and postsecular studies
- Uniform Title
- Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.
- Subjects
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Religion in literature
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 > Criticism and interpretation
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 > Criticism and interpretation
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 > Criticism and interpretation
- Women authors, English > 19th century
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 > Criticism and interpretation
- Goddess religion in literature
- English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Religion and literature
- Jameson, Mrs (Anna), 1794-1860 > Criticism and interpretation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-170) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-5546
- ISBN
- 9780814212103 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814212107 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780814293126 (cd)
- 0814293123 (cd)
- LCCN
- 2012032539
- OCLC
- 810039752
- Author
- Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-
- Title
- Victorian women writers, radical grandmothers, and the gendering of God / Gail Turley Houston.
- Imprint
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.
- Series
- Literature, religion, and postsecular studiesLiterature, religion, and postsecular studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-170) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-5546