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 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, [2024].
Subjects:	God in literature. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Femininity of God in literature. God > Motherhood.

Table of Contents:

The maternal image of God in Victorian culture: sympathy, prophecy, nature
Faces of the Madonna in Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction: feminist justice and the matriarchal divine
George Macdonald's fairy god mothers: romantic religion, female vocation, and maternalist communities
Josephine Butler, esoteric Christianity and the biblical motherhood of God
"The big good thing": Frances Hodgson Burnett's gospel of maternal optimism and Demetrian utopia
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "maternal pantheism": religion in utopian motherlands 1889-1915.