Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.