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10%OFFKimberly Van Esveld Adams - Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot - 9780821413623 - V9780821413623
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Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot

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Description for Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot Paperback. "Our Lady of Victorian Feminism" is about three 19th-century women, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their extensive use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women. Num Pages: 315 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 513.

Our Lady of Victorian Feminism is about three nineteenth-century women, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their extensive use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women.
In the field of Victorian studies, few scholars have looked beyond the customary identification of the Christian Madonna with the Victorian feminine ideal—the domestic Madonna or the Angel in the House. Kimberly VanEsveld Adams shows, however, that these three Victorian writers made extensive use of the Madonna in feminist arguments. They were able to see this figure in new ways, freely appropriating the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821413623
SKU
V9780821413623
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About Kimberly Van Esveld Adams
Kimberly VanEsveld Adams is a former Mellon Fellow and has had articles in Women’s Studies and Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. She teaches at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. 

Reviews for Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot
“Adams’s pioneering work in nineteenth-century feminist theology puts her at the forefront of an expanding new field of scholarship.”

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