Reclaiming Myths of Power: Women Writers and the Victorian Spiritual CrisisBucknell University Press, 1995 - 200 страници "This book re-examines the Victorian spiritual crisis from the perspective of the period's women writers, exploring the spiritual dimension in their lives and narratives. The introduction considers the relationship between sacred and secular canons and the limited access women have had to both. In the following chapters, case studies of the lives and selected texts of Florence Nightingale, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot provide an in-depth analysis of the relationship between female spiritual crises and diverse narrative strategies that reappropriate the conservative power associated with religious symbolism for a radical revisioning of women's social subjection." "By analyzing the neglected spiritual crises these women experienced, their discourse, and that produced by other Victorian women, this study reveals a more complex, problematic, and polemical dialogue during the period than has previously been argued."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... marriage — and , echoing her earlier complaints , Nightingale sees in her state religion no viable alternative . " To the woman , ” she writes , " Protestantism offers nothing but marriage ; she may leave home to marry , but for nothing ...
... marriage — and , echoing her earlier complaints , Nightingale sees in her state religion no viable alternative . " To the woman , ” she writes , " Protestantism offers nothing but marriage ; she may leave home to marry , but for nothing ...
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... marriage over remaining in their fathers ' homes . She re- flects upon their motivation : " three things on which marriage is generally founded , —a good opinion of a person , a desire to love and be loved , and a wish to escape ...
... marriage over remaining in their fathers ' homes . She re- flects upon their motivation : " three things on which marriage is generally founded , —a good opinion of a person , a desire to love and be loved , and a wish to escape ...
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... marriage her only entree to independence ( limited though it would be ) , Dorothea recog- nizes that she must marry a man not necessarily deemed a good match by society , but one with similar passions to her own . With this motivation ...
... marriage her only entree to independence ( limited though it would be ) , Dorothea recog- nizes that she must marry a man not necessarily deemed a good match by society , but one with similar passions to her own . With this motivation ...
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Reclaiming Myths of Power: Women Writers and the Victorian Spiritual Crisis Ruth Y. Jenkins Ограничен достъп - 1995 |
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agenda allusion androcentric asserts authority behavior believed Bellingham Benson biblical Bradshaw Caroline Casaubon Cassandra challenge character Charlotte Brontë Christ Christian Church of England clerical codes complicit context contrast culture's Daniel Deronda daughters death divine doctrine Dorothea Elaine Showalter Elizabeth Gaskell empower epic ethical Evans faith father feminist fiction Florence Nightingale Gaskell's gender George Eliot Gilbert and Gubar Gnostic Gospels God's word Helstone human ideology individual interpretation Judeo-Christian literary lives Lydgate male marriage Mary Middlemarch moral mother mother-love myth narrative narrator novel nursing oppression organized religion parallels passion patriarchal patriarchal appropriation patriarchal culture perspective prophets Protestantism radical reader rejection relationship religious Religious Humanism reveals revisionist Robert Elsmere romance Ruth Ruth's sacred Saint Theresa salvation scripts secular semiotic sentimental Shirley Significantly social society sphere subverts suffering Suggestions symbolic talents theological tion traditional truth University Press values vision vocation voice woman writing