Images of the Divine Woman in Literary Culture
Gatta, John (Professor of English, University of Connecticut, USA)
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Hardback
192 pages
20 Halftones
Published: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 019511261X
Focusing on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harold Federic, Henry Adams and T.S. Eliot, this text explores the representation of Mary as mythical Madonna and the symbolic compensation this offered Protestant writers for a def