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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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Autor principal: Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Col·lecció:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Matèries:
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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Taula de continguts:
  • 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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