| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Religion in America series
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Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-172) and index. |
| Summary |
This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth. This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman - verging at times on devotional 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. Author John Gatta delineates a countercultural pattern of mythic assertion that has yet to be acknowledged in standard surveys of American cultural or literary history. Gatta argues that flirtation with the Marian cultus offered Protestant writers symbolic compensation for what might be culturally diagnosed as a deficiency of psychic femininity, or anima, in America. He argues that these literary configurations of the mythical Madonna express a subsurface cultural resistance to the prevailing rationalism and pragmatism of the American mind in an age of entrepreneurial conquest. |
| Contents |
1. Sacred Woman: The Problem of Hawthorne's Madonnas. Of Holy Mothers and Dark Ladies. Hester's Divine Maternity. Queen Zenobia of Blithedale. New England Maiden and the Fallen Goddess of The Marble Faun. Hawthorne's Search for Sacred Love: From Puritan Fathers to Divine Mothers -- 2. 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. 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. 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. Sexual Madonna in Harold Frederic's Damnation of Theron Ware. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- In literature.
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to -- United States.
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. |
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United States. |
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Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. |
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Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ -- Cult -- United States. |
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Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ -- In literature. |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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American literature -- Protestant authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Protestant authors. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Christianity and literature -- United States.
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Christianity and literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Femininity in literature.
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Femininity in literature. |
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Women and literature. |
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Christian saints in literature.
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Christian saints in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gatta, John. American madonna. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997 019511261X (DLC) 96048856 (OCoLC)35919316 |
| ISBN |
0585211728 (electronic book) |
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9780585211725 (electronic book) |
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0195354605 |
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9780195354607 |
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9780195112610 (cloth) |
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9780195112627 (paper) |
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019511261X (cloth) |
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0195112628 (paper) |
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