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American Madonna
John Gatta
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Hardback. No dust jacket.
This text explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna, that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the 19th century into the later 20th. This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman - verging at times on devotional homage - is especially intriguing as manifested in the Protestant writers who are the focus of this study: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harold Frederic, Henry Adams, and T.S. Eliot. The author argues that flirtation with the Marian cultus offered Protestant writers symbolic compensation for what might be culturally diagnosed as ... Read more
This text explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna, that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the 19th century into the later 20th. This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman - verging at times on devotional homage - is especially intriguing as manifested in the Protestant writers who are the focus of this study: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harold Frederic, Henry Adams, and T.S. Eliot. The author argues that flirtation with the Marian cultus offered Protestant writers symbolic compensation for what might be culturally diagnosed as ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Number of Pages
191
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195112610
SKU
KT00001603
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