The Maternal Image Of God In Victorian Literature

Author : Rebecca Styler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000892994

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The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature by Rebecca Styler Pdf

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 primarily by women 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 also to writers including Charlotte Brontë, 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 explores its cultural roots. The book reveals a new way in which Victorian writers creatively negotiated between religious tradition and modernity.

Author : Anna Kay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000933079

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Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England by Anna Kay Pdf

Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Mannings' ‘Bermondsey murder’, and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture. Exploring the ongoing textual afterlife of Maria Manning, including significant literary contributions by Charles Dickens through his characters Mademoiselle Hortense and Madame Defarge, this volume illuminates representations both echoed and challenged in mid-nineteenth-century conceptions of gender, sexuality, class, nationality, religion, and criminality. This volume also examines the five largely forgotten cases of female homicide from the same year and the imagined discourse perpetuated in fictional personifications. Utilising a wide breadth of literary and historical research, this volume provides readers with a thorough understanding of the various cultural implications of crime and gender in the Victorian period to be read, remembered, and reinterpreted today. Located simultaneously in the fields of feminist, historical, and literary criticism, this volume is invaluable to students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, and researchers with an interest in criminology and media culture.

Author : Barbara Z. Thaden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135814434

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The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction by Barbara Z. Thaden Pdf

This is the first full-length study to focus specifically on representations of motherhood in fiction by such Victorian writers as Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Caroline Norton, and Ellen Price Wood. These authors presented an idealized view of motherhood as part of a campaign to gain social and legal status for mothering in a society in which married women were not legal entities and children born in wedlock were the inalienable property of their fathers. These writers used dead mother plots which reversed New Testament parables so that the mother plays the leading role, and maternal circle plots, which portray adult daughters and their mothers raising children outside marriage. This fiction, which showed how children benefit from good mothering, was instrumental in married mothers eventually obtaining equal parental rights.

Author : Alissa Burger
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786466436

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The Wizard of Oz as American Myth by Alissa Burger Pdf

Since the publication of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, authors, filmmakers, and theatrical producers have been retelling and reinventing this uniquely American fairy tale. This volume examines six especially significant incarnations of the story: Baum's original novel, the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), Sidney Lumet's African American film musical The Wiz (1978), Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Broadway hit Wicked: A New Musical (2003), and the SyFy Channel miniseries Tin Man (2007). A close consideration of these works demonstrates how versions of Baum's tale are influenced by and help shape notions of American myth, including issues of gender, race, home, and magic, and makes clear that the Wizard of Oz narrative remains compelling and relevant today.

Author : Natalie McKnight
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312122950

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Suffering Mothers in Mid-Victorian Novels by Natalie McKnight Pdf

During the Victorian Era, women who became mothers faced unprecedented, unrealistic, and contradictory expectations from mainstream society. These expectations were expressed through a wide range of media including maternal guidebooks, popular periodicals, and Queen Victoria's maternal image. In Suffering Mothers in Mid-Victorian Novels, Natalie McKnight analyzes the influence of such cultural pressures on the fictional portrayals of mothers in mid-Victorian novels. Using a new historical and psychoanalytic approach, McKnight examines the climate created by a society that idolized mothers in theory but in reality positioned them to fail. The novels of Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Thackeray, and George Eliot are studied for their inclusion of mother characters who vary from the ambivalent to the monstrous, the angelic to the absent. In her thorough exploration of these novels, McKnight reveals the influences and the natures of characters who function more centrally in mid-Victorian fiction than has often been supposed.

Author : Julia O'Faolain,Lauro Martines
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1973-01
Category : Women
ISBN : 0061360597

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Not in God's Image by Julia O'Faolain,Lauro Martines Pdf

Brings together writings by and about European women who lived between the time of early Greece and the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : George P. Landow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317634966

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Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows (Routledge Revivals) by George P. Landow Pdf

The importance of typology in the study of early modern literature has long been accepted, yet students of Victorian culture have paid little attention to it. First published in 1980, this study demonstrates how biblical typology, an apparently arcane interpretative mode, had profound effects on the secular culture of the Victorian age: its art, literature and thought. George Landow considers the way in which the average English believer learned to read their Bible in terms of the types and shadows of Christ, the various ways in which Victorian poetry and hymns employed certain imagery, and the use of typological symbolism in narrative poetry, prose fiction, dramatic monologue and non-fiction. In a concluding chapter, he investigates the particularly complex, and often ironic, combinations of typological image and typological structure.

Author : Jennifer P. Heimmel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015005378941

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God is Our Mother by Jennifer P. Heimmel Pdf

Author : Suzy Anger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 080148765X

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Knowing the Past by Suzy Anger Pdf

Text vs. hypertext: seeing the Victorian object as in itself it really is / Gerhard Joseph -- The golden bough and the unknowable / Christopher Herbert -- Daniel Deronda: a new epistemology / George Levine -- Walter Pater's impressionism and the form of historical revival Carolyn Williams -- Arnold and the authorization of criticism / Herbert F. Tucker -- Aesthetics, ethics, and unreadable acts in George Eliot / Jonathan Loesberg -- The structure of anxiety in political economy and Hard times / Mary Poovey -- How to be a benefactor without any money: the chill of welfare in Great expectations / Bruce Robbins -- Tracking the sentimental eye / Judith Stoddart -- Knowing and telling in Dickens's retrospects / Rosemarie Bodenheimer -- Inside the shark's mouth: William Lovett's struggle for political language / Margery Sabin -- Knowing a life: Edith Simcox, Sat est vixisse? / Gillian Beer.

Author : Caroline Blyth,Emily Colgan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000929010

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The Routledge Companion to Eve by Caroline Blyth,Emily Colgan Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Eve is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary collection which explores the history of interpretation that surrounds Eve’s character in both religious writings and cultural texts. The primary themes discussed in the volume include the religious, historical, and cultural ideologies that have influenced interpretations of Eve, as well as the cultural impact of these interpretations on gender identities and injustices. Chapters trace the evolution of Eve’s interpretive history from ancient biblical texts up to the present day. The contributors engage with both traditional modes of inquiry in text-based religious research as well as the newer fields of reception history and cultural criticism to explore the rich history of interpretation and reception surrounding Eve, as well as the cultural and historical impact these interpretations have had on women’s religious and social lives across space and time. The Routledge Companion to Eve is an original and important collection which will equip readers to begin their own explorations of Eve’s extraordinary legacy. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars of Gender Studies, Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Gender, Literary Studies, History of Art, and Cultural Studies.

Author : Conrad Riker
Publisher : Conrad Riker
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Maiden, Mother, Matriarch by Conrad Riker Pdf

Are you feeling lost in a world that tells you to forget your maternal instincts and embrace the "strong independent woman" narrative? Are you tired of feeling like you have to choose between your career and your family? Are you wondering how to instill traditional values in your children while still adapting to modern society? "The Maiden, Mother, Matriarch" is the ultimate guide for rediscovering the archetype of the good mother and embracing your natural instincts as a woman. In this book, author Conrad Riker explores: - The importance of traditional roles within the family structure and the consequences of abandoning them. - How to preserve and pass on cultural customs, especially those related to child-rearing and household management. - The relationship between the mother archetype and religious beliefs, specifically Christianity and its figure of Mary as the virgin mother. - The psychological and emotional consequences of abandoning traditional roles and adopting more masculine or androgynous identities. - The experiences and perspectives of women who have chosen to embrace traditional roles within their personal lives and relationships. Don't let the world force you into becoming something you're not. Embrace your maternal instincts and learn how to balance career, family, and tradition. If you want to rediscover the lost art of being a good mother, buy "The Maiden, Mother, Matriarch" today!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Arts, Victorian
ISBN : IND:30000117409585

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Victorian Literature and Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rachel Gotlieb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350354852

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Ceramics in the Victorian Era by Rachel Gotlieb Pdf

This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in recent scholarship, Ceramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature argues that the signification of a pot, a jug, or a tableware pattern can be more fully discerned in written and painted representations. Across five case studies, the book explores a rhetoric and set of conventions that developed within the representation of ceramics, emerging in the late-18th century, and continuing in the Victorian period. Each case study begins with a textual passage exemplifying the outlined theme and closes with an object analysis to demonstrate how the fusing of text, image, and object are critical to attaining the period eye in order to better understand the metaphorical meanings of ceramics. Essential reading not only for ceramics scholars, but also those of material culture, the book mines the rich and diverse archive of Victorian painting and literature, from the avant-garde to the sentimental, from the well-known to the more obscure, to shed light on the at once complex and simple implications of ceramics' agencies at this time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781770480919

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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Victorian Era - Second Edition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bill Mason
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453520376

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Pursuing Sherlock Holmes by Bill Mason Pdf

The influence of Sherlock Holmes can be found throughout the cultural landscape. From the Three Little Pigs to the ancient poetry of Horace, from John Wayne to Macbeth, from the sultry moves of Madonna to the theories of Sigmund Freud, the stories about the greatest of detectives link to just about any subject or situation. In Pursuing Sherlock Holmes, Bill Mason uncovers seething sex in The Hound of the Baskervilles, observes Professor Moriarty through the eyes of Generation X, reveals a hidden formula of death, explains the mystic effect of colors on the mind of Sherlock Holmes, exposes Conan Doyles theft of the plot of Dracula, resurrects ten compelling characters from their graves, and visits the mind of Sherlock Holmes to find his true thoughts about romantic love. This collection of innovative essays, stories and even poetry approaches Sherlock Holmes from a thoroughly unique perspective that combines humor with literature and classic tales with familiar aspects of modern culture.