1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910706296403321

Autore

Cathcart James Bachelder <1917->

Titolo

Middle Paleozoic sedimentary phosphate in the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica / / by James B. Cathcart and Dwight L. Schmidt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1977

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, E18 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Geological Survey professional paper ; ; 456-E

Soggetti

Geology - Antarctica - Pensacola Mountains

Geology, Stratigraphic - Paleozoic

Phosphate rock - Antarctica - Pensacola Mountains

Sandstone - Antarctica - Pensacola Mountains

Geology

Geology, Stratigraphic

Paleozoic Geologic Period

Phosphate rock

Sandstone

Antarctica Pensacola Mountains

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed September 29, 2014).

"Contributions to the geology of Antarctica."

"Work done under the auspices of the U.S. Antarctic Research Program and financed by the U.S. National Science Foundation."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages E17-E18).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778631403321

Autore

Gatta John <1946->

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

0-19-773815-X

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

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