Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God Gail Turley Houston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Series:

Literature, religion, and postsecular studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goddess religion in literature.

Religion in literature.

Religion and literature.

Women authors, English--19th century.

Women authors, English.

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

English literature.

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.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 181 p. )

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2013.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-170) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8142-7021-2

OCLC:

868220080

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access