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American madonna : images of the divine woman in literary culture / / John Gatta



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Autore: Gatta John Visualizza persona
Titolo: American madonna : images of the divine woman in literary culture / / John Gatta Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 pages)
Disciplina: 810.9/351
Soggetto topico: 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
Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1997.
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; INDEX
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
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ISBN: 0-19-773815-X
1-280-45368-0
0-19-535460-5
9786610453689
0-585-21172-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816810103321
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Serie: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)