Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God /

Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God /

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"If Victorian women writers yearned for authorial forebears, or, in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words, for "grandmothers," there were, Gail Turley Houston argues, grandmothers who in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries envisioned powerful female divinities that wo...

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Main Author: Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nightingale, Florence, > 1820-1910.
Jameson, > Mrs. > (Anna), > 1794-1860.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, > 1806-1861.
Brontë, Charlotte, > 1816-1855.
Brontë, Charlotte, > 1816-1855 > Criticism and interpretation.
Jameson, > Mrs. > (Anna), > 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.
Religion
Frauenliteratur
Englisch
Women authors, English.
Religion in literature.
Religion and literature.
Goddess religion in literature.
English literature > Women authors.
English literature.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Écrivaines anglaises > 19e siecle.
Religion et litterature.
Religion dans la litterature.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women authors, English > 19th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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505 0 |a 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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520 |a "If Victorian women writers yearned for authorial forebears, or, in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words, for "grandmothers," there were, Gail Turley Houston argues, grandmothers who in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries envisioned powerful female divinities that would reconfigure society. Like many Victorian women writers, they experienced a sense of what Barrett Browning termed "mother-want" inextricably connected to "mother-god-want." These millenarian and socialist feminist grandmothers believed the time had come for women to initiate the earthly paradise that patriarchal institutions had failed to establish. Recuperating a symbolic divine in the form of the Great Mother--a pagan Virgin Mary, a female messiah, and a titanic Eve--Joanna Southcott, Eliza Sharples, Frances Wright, and others set the stage for Victorian women writers to envision and impart emanations of puissant Christian and pagan goddesses, enabling them to acquire the authorial legitimacy patriarchal culture denied them. Though the Victorian authors studied by Houston--Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, Florence Nightingale, Anna Jameson, and George Eliot--often masked progressive rhetoric, even in some cases seeming to reject these foremothers, their radical genealogy reappeared in mystic, metaphysical revisions of divinity that insisted that deity be understood, at least in part, as substantively female."--Publisher's description. 
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