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The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature

Rebecca Styler

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  • 2023
This book is the study of a religious metaphor: the idea of God as a mother, in British and US literature 18501915. 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 womens 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 humananimal fellowship. With reference also to writers including Charlotte Bront, 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.
  • Författare: Rebecca Styler
  • Illustratör: black and white 1 Halftones 1 Halftones, black and white 1 Illustrations black and white 1 Illu
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780367473631
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 216
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-07-10
  • Förlag: Routledge