- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 181 p.)
- Series Statement
- Literature, religion, and postsecular studies
- Uniform Title
- Victorian women writers, radical grandmothers, and the gendering of God (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Victorian women writers, radical grandmothers, and the gendering of God (Online)
- Subject
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 > Criticism and interpretation
- Jameson, Mrs. 1794-1860 > Criticism and interpretation
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 > Criticism and interpretation
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 > Criticism and interpretation
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 > Criticism and interpretation
- English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Women authors, English > 19th century
- Religion and literature
- Religion in literature
- Goddess religion in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-170) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2012032539
- OCLC
- ssj0001349359
- Author
Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-
- Title
Victorian women writers, radical grandmothers, and the gendering of God [electronic resource] / Gail Turley Houston.
- Imprint
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.
- Series
Literature, religion, and postsecular studies
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-170) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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