Victorian women writers, radical grandmothers, and the gendering of God / Gail Turley Houston.
2013
PR115 .H68 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
Victorian women writers, radical grandmothers, and the gendering of God / Gail Turley Houston.
Author
Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-
ISBN
9780814212103 (alk. paper)
0814212107 (alk. paper)
0814212107 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.
Language
English
Description
x, 181 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR115 .H68 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/928709034
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-170) and index.
Series
Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.
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Table of 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.
"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.