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PS217.M35 G38 1997
PS217
.
M35
G38
1997
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
019511261X
0195112628
9780195112610
9780195112627
bnb
b410419
American madonna :
[Book]
images of the divine woman in literary culture /
John Gatta
xii, 179 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Religion in America series
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-172) and index
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
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
Mary,Devotion to-- United States
Mary,In literature
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
American literature-- Protestant authors-- History and criticism
Christian saints in literature
Christianity and literature-- United States
Femininity in literature
Women and literature-- United States
Women in literature
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PS217
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M35
G38
1997
Gatta, John
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