Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God

(Part of the Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies Series)

by Gail Turley Houston

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If Victorian women writers yearned for authorial forebears, or, in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words, for "grandmothers," there were, Gail Turley Houston argues, grandmothers who in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries envisioned powerful female divinities that would reconfigure society. Like many Victorian women writers, they experienced a sense of what Barrett Browning termed "mother-want" inextricably connected to "mother-god-want."...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814255132

ISBN13:9780814255131

Release Date:December 2018

Publisher:Ohio State University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality

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Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God

(Part of the Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies Series)

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