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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456025503321

Autore

Gatta John

Titolo

American madonna [[electronic resource] ] : images of the divine woman in literary culture / / John Gatta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

1-280-45368-0

0-19-535460-5

9786610453689

0-585-21172-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Religion in America series

Disciplina

810.9/351

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

American literature - Protestant authors - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Christianity and literature - United States

Women in literature

Femininity in literature

Women and literature - United States

Christian saints in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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;



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Sommario/riassunto

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