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

SeriesLiterature, religion, and postsecular studies
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Literature, religion, and postsecular studies. ^A1192092
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 145-170) and index.
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LCCN 2012032539
ISBN9780814270219
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