Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God [electronic resource] / Gail Turley Houston.
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TextSeries: Literature, religion, and postsecular studies | Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xi, 181 p. )Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780814270219
- 0814270212
- 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
- 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
- 820.9/928709034 23
- PR115 .H68 2013
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-170) and index.
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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