American madonna : images of the divine woman in literary culture / John Gatta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gatta, John, author.

Series:

Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)

Oxford scholarship online.

Religion in America series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--In literature.

Mary.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--United States.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Protestant authors--History and criticism.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Christianity and literature--United States.

Christianity and literature.

Women in literature.

Femininity in literature.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

Christian saints in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth. This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman -- verging at times ondevotional homage -- is especially intriguing as manifested in the Protestant writers who are the focus of this study: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harold Frederic, Henry Adams, and T.S. Eliot. John Gatta argues that flirtation with the Marian cultus offeredProtestant writers symb

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE: THE SACRED WOMAN: THE PROBLEM OF HAWTHORNE'S MADONNAS; TWO: THE VIRGINAL SOUL OF MARGARET FULLER'S Woman in the Nineteenth Century; THREE: CALVINISM FEMINIZED: DIVINE MATRIARCHY IN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE; FOUR: THE SEXUAL MADONNA IN HAROLD FREDERIC'S Damnation of Theron Ware; FIVE: HENRY ADAMS: THE VIRGIN AS DYNAMO; SIX: ELIOT'S ARCHETYPAL LADY OF SEA AND GARDEN: THE RECOVERY OF MYTH; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX: ""Raphael's Deposition from the Cross,"" by Margaret Fuller; ""Mary at the Cross"" and ""The Sorrows of Mary,"" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Excerpt from ""The Golden Legend"" by Henry Wadsworth LongfNOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-172) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773815-X

1-280-45368-0

0-19-535460-5

9786610453689

0-585-21172-8

OCLC:

567929642