The maternal image of God in Victorian literature
"This book is the study of a religious metaphor: the idea of God as a mother, in British and US literature 1850-1915. It uncovers a tradition of writers for whom divine motherhood embodied ideals felt to be missing from the orthodox masculine deity. Elizabeth Gaskell, Josephine Butler, George M...
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| 格式: | Print 圖書 |
| 語言: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York London
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| 叢編: | Among the victorians and modernists
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Großbritannien
/ USA
/ 神 (紋樣)
/ 母親 (紋樣)
/ 母性 (紋樣)
/ 文學
/ 歷史 1850-1915
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| Further subjects: | B
English literature 19th century
History and criticism
B Literary Criticism B Femininity of God in literature B God in literature B God Motherhood B American literature 19th century History and criticism |
| 總結: | "This book is the study of a religious metaphor: the idea of God as a mother, in British and US literature 1850-1915. It uncovers a tradition of writers for whom divine motherhood embodied ideals felt to be missing from the orthodox masculine deity. Elizabeth Gaskell, Josephine Butler, George Macdonald, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Charlotte Perkins Gilman independently reworked their inherited faith to create a new symbol that better met their religious needs, based on ideal Victorian notions of motherhood and 'mother nature'. Divine motherhood signified compassion, universal salvation, and a realised gospel of social reform led by women primarily to establish sympathetic community. Connected to Victorian feminism, it gave authority to women's voices and to 'feminine' cultural values in the public sphere. It represented divine immanence within the world, often providing the grounds for an ecological ethic, including human-animal fellowship. With reference to writers including Anna Jameson, Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Charles, Theodore Parker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Baker Eddy and authors of literary utopias, this book shows the extent of maternal theology in Victorian thought, and its cultural roots. The book reveals a new way in which Victorian writers creatively negotiated between religious tradition and modernity"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 實物描述: | ix, 216 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-0-367-47363-1 978-1-032-50993-8 |
