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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Houston, Gail Turley, 1950- (-)
Format:	eBook
Language:	Inglés
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press 2013.
Series:	Literature, religion, and postsecular studies
Subjects:	Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Criticism and interpretation. Nightingale, Florence, > 1820-1910 > Criticism and interpretation. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, > 1806-1861 > Criticism and interpretation. Jameson, > Mrs. > (Anna), > 1794-1860 > Criticism and interpretation. Brontë, Charlotte, > 1816-1855 > Criticism and interpretation. Goddess religion in literature. Religion in literature. Religion and literature. Women authors, English > 19th century. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433898806719

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.

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