American madonna images of the divine woman in literary culture
Record details
- ISBN: 0585211728 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780585211725 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0195354605
- ISBN: 9780195354607
- ISBN: 9780195112610 (cloth)
- ISBN: 9780195112627 (paper)
- ISBN: 019511261X (cloth)
- ISBN: 0195112628 (paper)
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1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) : illustrations. - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.10.13 CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-172) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. The Sacred Woman: The Problem of Hawthorne's Madonnas. Of Holy Mothers and Dark Ladies. Hester's Divine Maternity. Queen Zenobia of Blithedale. The New England Maiden and the Fallen Goddess of The Marble Faun. Hawthorne's Search for Sacred Love: From Puritan Fathers to Divine Mothers -- 2. The Virginal Soul of Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Queen Margaret's Mythmaking. "Her own creator": Images of Self-fashioning in Minerva, Leila, and Mary through 1844. The Mary Victoria of Woman in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Calvinism Feminized: Divine Matriarchy in Harriet Beecher Stowe. Godly Maternity and Motherly Jesus. Birthpangs of the New Order in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Ministry of Mary in The Minister's Wooing. Other Appearances of the Madonna-Intercessor in Agnes of Sorrento, Poganuc People, and The Pearl of Orr's Island. Sacrament of Mother-Love, Compassion of the Mater Dolorosa -- 4. The Sexual Madonna in Harold Frederic's Damnation of Theron Ware. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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