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Women of faith in Victorian culture : reassessing the angel in the house / edited by Anne Hogan and Andrew Bradstock.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Christianity and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Christianity and literature.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and religion.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Women and religion--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Christian literature, English--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, English.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- Angels in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to a much neglected area of Victorian studies: the portrayal of women of faith in fictional and non-fictional writings of the period.
- Contents:
- 1 The Drunkard, the Brute and the Paterfamilias: The Temperance Fiction of the Early Victorian Writer Sarah Stickney Ellis / Henrietta Twycross-Martin 6
- 2 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Rejecting the Angel's Influence / Siv Jansson 31
- 3 Double Blessedness: Anna Kingsford and Beatrice / Peter Merchant 48
- 4 Sisterhood is Powerful: Christina Rossetti's Maude / Frederick S. Roden 63
- 5 Fedalma-'The Angel of a Homeless Tribe': Issues of Religion, Race and Gender in George Eliot's Poetic Drama, The Spanish Gypsy / Joss West-Burnham 78
- 6 Angel or Eve?: Victorian Catholicism and the Angel in the House / Anne Hogan 91
- 7 From Hearth to Heath: Angelic Transformations in May Sinclair's Major Novels / Terry Phillips 101
- 8 The Angel in the House of Death: Gender and Subjectivity in George MacDonald's Lilith / William Gray 117
- 9 Quiet Angels: Some Women Hymn-writers / J.R. Watson 128
- 10 Nonconformist Obituaries: How Stereotyped was their View of Women? / Linda Wilson 145
- 11 The Paradigmatic Angel in the House: The Virgin Mary and Victorian Anglicans / Carol Marie Engelhardt 159
- 12 Heroines of Missionary Adventure: The Portrayal of Victorian Women Missionaries in Popular Fiction and Biography / Sean Gill 172
- 13 The Victorian Lady's Domestic Threat: The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent Female Adversary in Contemporary Art / Susan P. Casteras 186
- 14 The Power of Womanhood: Religion and Sexual Politics in the Writings of Ellice Hopkins / Sue Morgan 209.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312212178
- 0333694554
- OCLC:
- 37694889
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