The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature

Auteur

Rebecca Styler is Associate Professor in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. Having received her PhD from the University of Leicester, she has published in nineteenth-century literature, religion and gender, including a monograph Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century (2010) and numerous articles and book chapters on writers including Anna Jameson, Anne Brontë, Josephine Butler and Elizabeth Gaskell, as well as on feminist utopias and religious life writing.

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The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature shows the extent of maternal theology in Victorian thought, and its cultural roots. The book reveals a new way in which Victorian writers creatively negotiations between religious tradition and modernity.

Résumé
The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature shows the extent of maternal theology in Victorian thought, and its cultural roots. The book reveals a new way in which Victorian writers creatively negotiations between religious tradition and modernity.

Contenu

1. The Idea of God as Mother in Victorian Culture: Sympathy, Prophecy, Nature

2. Faces of the Madonna in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction: Feminist Justice and the Matriarchal Divine

3. George Macdonald's Fairy God Mothers: Romantic Religion, Female Vocation and Maternalist Communities

4. Josephine Butler, Esoteric Christianity and the Biblical Motherhood of God

5. 'The Big Good Thing': Frances Hodgson Burnett's Maternal Gospel of Optimism, Immanence and Demetrian Utopia

6. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'Maternal Pantheism': Religion in Utopian Motherlands 18891915