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  1. American madonna
    images of the divine woman in literary culture
    Author: Gatta, John
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    Location:
    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 019511261X; 0195112628
    RVK Categories: HR 1705
    Series: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
    Subjects: American literature; American literature; American literature; Christianity and literature; Women in literature; Femininity in literature; Women and literature; Christian saints in literature; Marienverehrung; Mariendichtung; Geschichte; Literatur
    Other subjects: Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint; Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint
    Scope: xii, 179 p.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-172) and index
  2. American madonna
    images of the divine woman in literary culture
    Author: Gatta, John
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth. This imaginative involvement with the... more

    Location:
    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
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    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth. This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman -- verging at times ondevotional 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. John Gatta argues that flirtation with the Marian cultus offeredProtestant writers symb

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0195112628; 019511261X
    Series: Religion in America series
    Religion in America Ser
    Subjects: Christian saints in literature; Femininity in literature; Women and literature; American literature; Christianity and literature; American literature; American literature; Women in literature; American literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism; American literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism; American literature ; Protestant authors ; History and criticism; Christianity and literature ; United States; Mary ; Blessed Virgin, Saint ; Devotion to ; United States; Mary ; Blessed Virgin, Saint ; In literature; Women in literature; Electronic books
    Other subjects: Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint; Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xii, 179 p), ill
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-172) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE: THE SACRED WOMAN: THE PROBLEM OF HAWTHORNE'S MADONNAS; TWO: THE VIRGINAL SOUL OF MARGARET FULLER'S Woman in the Nineteenth Century; THREE: CALVINISM FEMINIZED: DIVINE MATRIARCHY IN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE; FOUR: THE SEXUAL MADONNA IN HAROLD FREDERIC'S Damnation of Theron Ware; FIVE: HENRY ADAMS: THE VIRGIN AS DYNAMO; SIX: ELIOT'S ARCHETYPAL LADY OF SEA AND GARDEN: THE RECOVERY OF MYTH; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX: ""Raphael's Deposition from the Cross,"" by Margaret Fuller; ""Mary at the Cross"" and ""The Sorrows of Mary,"" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Excerpt from ""The Golden Legend"" by Henry Wadsworth LongfNOTES; INDEX
  3. American madonna
    images of the divine woman in literary culture
    Author: Gatta, John
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth. This imaginative involvement with the... more

    Location:
    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth. This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman -- verging at times ondevotional 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. John Gatta argues that flirtation with the Marian cultus offeredProtestant writers symb

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0195112628; 019511261X
    Series: Religion in America series
    Religion in America Ser
    Subjects: Christian saints in literature; Femininity in literature; Women and literature; American literature; Christianity and literature; American literature; American literature; Women in literature; American literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism; American literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism; American literature ; Protestant authors ; History and criticism; Christianity and literature ; United States; Mary ; Blessed Virgin, Saint ; Devotion to ; United States; Mary ; Blessed Virgin, Saint ; In literature; Women in literature; Electronic books
    Other subjects: Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint; Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xii, 179 p), ill
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-172) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE: THE SACRED WOMAN: THE PROBLEM OF HAWTHORNE'S MADONNAS; TWO: THE VIRGINAL SOUL OF MARGARET FULLER'S Woman in the Nineteenth Century; THREE: CALVINISM FEMINIZED: DIVINE MATRIARCHY IN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE; FOUR: THE SEXUAL MADONNA IN HAROLD FREDERIC'S Damnation of Theron Ware; FIVE: HENRY ADAMS: THE VIRGIN AS DYNAMO; SIX: ELIOT'S ARCHETYPAL LADY OF SEA AND GARDEN: THE RECOVERY OF MYTH; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX: ""Raphael's Deposition from the Cross,"" by Margaret Fuller; ""Mary at the Cross"" and ""The Sorrows of Mary,"" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Excerpt from ""The Golden Legend"" by Henry Wadsworth LongfNOTES; INDEX