LEADER 03853nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910778631403321 005 20230217230221.0 010 $a0-19-773815-X 010 $a1-280-45368-0 010 $a0-19-535460-5 010 $a9786610453689 010 $a0-585-21172-8 035 $a(CKB)111000211155158 035 $a(EBL)270966 035 $a(OCoLC)567929642 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102250 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133141 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102250 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10048217 035 $a(PQKB)11597148 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL270966 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142341 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL45368 035 $a(OCoLC)936848987 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC270966 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111000211155158 100 $a19961101d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican Madonna$b[electronic resource] $eimages of the divine woman in literary culture /$fJohn Gatta 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1997 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 225 1 $aReligion in America series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-511261-X 311 $a0-19-511262-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 151-172) and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 327 $aExcerpt from ""The Golden Legend"" by Henry Wadsworth LongfNOTES; INDEX 330 $aThis book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth. This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman -- verging at times ondevotional homage -- is especially intriguing as manifested in the Protestant writers who are the focus of this study: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harold Frederic, Henry Adams, and T.S. Eliot. John Gatta argues that flirtation with the Marian cultus offeredProtestant writers symb 410 0$aReligion in America series (Oxford University Press) 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xProtestant authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristianity and literature$zUnited States 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aFemininity in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States 606 $aChristian saints in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xProtestant authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristianity and literature 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aFemininity in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aChristian saints in literature. 676 $a810.9/351 700 $aGatta$b John$f1946-$01523460 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778631403321 996 $aAmerican Madonna$93763649 997 $aUNINA