The maternal image of God in Victorian literature /
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 Macdo...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Styler, Rebecca
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2024].
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