03853nam 2200793Ia 450 991077863140332120230217230221.00-19-773815-X1-280-45368-00-19-535460-597866104536890-585-21172-8(CKB)111000211155158(EBL)270966(OCoLC)567929642(SSID)ssj0000102250(PQKBManifestationID)11133141(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102250(PQKBWorkID)10048217(PQKB)11597148(Au-PeEL)EBL270966(CaPaEBR)ebr10142341(CaONFJC)MIL45368(OCoLC)936848987(MiAaPQ)EBC270966(EXLCZ)9911100021115515819961101d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican Madonna[electronic resource] images of the divine woman in literary culture /John GattaNew York Oxford University Press19971 online resource (192 p.)Religion in America seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-511261-X 0-19-511262-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-172) and index.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 StoweExcerpt from ""The Golden Legend"" by Henry Wadsworth LongfNOTES; INDEXThis 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 symbReligion in America series (Oxford University Press)American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literatureProtestant authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismChristianity and literatureUnited StatesWomen in literatureFemininity in literatureWomen and literatureUnited StatesChristian saints in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureProtestant authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Christianity and literatureWomen in literature.Femininity in literature.Women and literatureChristian saints in literature.810.9/351Gatta John1946-1523460MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778631403321American Madonna3763649UNINA