TY - BOOK AU - Houston,Gail Turley ED - Project Muse. TI - Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God T2 - Literature, religion, and postsecular studies SN - 9780814270219 AV - PR115 .H68 2013 U1 - 820.9/928709034 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Columbus PB - Ohio State University Press KW - Eliot, George, KW - Nightingale, Florence, KW - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, KW - Jameson, KW - Brontë, Charlotte, KW - Goddess religion in literature KW - Religion in literature KW - Religion and literature KW - Women authors, English KW - 19th century KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Women authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/24234/ ER -