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

"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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المؤلف الرئيسي: Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2013.
سلاسل:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • 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.