TY  - BOOK
AU  - Houston,Gail Turley
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / 
T2  - Literature, religion, and postsecular studies
SN  - 9780814270219
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Columbus
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Nightingale, Florence,
KW  - Jameson,
KW  - Eliot, George,
KW  - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,
KW  - Brontë, Charlotte,
KW  - Religion
KW  - gnd
KW  - Frauenliteratur
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Women authors, English
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Religion and literature
KW  - Goddess religion in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Écrits de femmes anglais
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Litterature anglaise
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - Écrivaines anglaises
KW  - Religion et litterature
KW  - Religion dans la litterature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola; Open Access
N2  - "If Victorian women writers yearned for authorial forebears, or, in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words, for "grandmothers," there were, Gail Turley Houston argues, grandmothers who in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries envisioned powerful female divinities that would reconfigure society. Like many Victorian women writers, they experienced a sense of what Barrett Browning termed "mother-want" inextricably connected to "mother-god-want." These millenarian and socialist feminist grandmothers believed the time had come for women to initiate the earthly paradise that patriarchal institutions had failed to establish. Recuperating a symbolic divine in the form of the Great Mother--a pagan Virgin Mary, a female messiah, and a titanic Eve--Joanna Southcott, Eliza Sharples, Frances Wright, and others set the stage for Victorian women writers to envision and impart emanations of puissant Christian and pagan goddesses, enabling them to acquire the authorial legitimacy patriarchal culture denied them. Though the Victorian authors studied by Houston--Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, Florence Nightingale, Anna Jameson, and George Eliot--often masked progressive rhetoric, even in some cases seeming to reject these foremothers, their radical genealogy reappeared in mystic, metaphysical revisions of divinity that insisted that deity be understood, at least in part, as substantively female."--Publisher's description
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/24234/
ER  -