Author
John Gatta
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
November 1997
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This book 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 nineteenth century into the later twentieth. 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. John Gatta argues that flirtation with the Marian cultus offered Protestant writers symbolic compensation for what might be culturally diagnosed as a deficiency of psychic femininity, or anima, in America. He argues that the literary configurations of the mythical Madonna express a subsurface cultural resistance to the prevailing rationalism and pragmatism of the American mind in an age of entrepreneurial conquest.
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Author
John Gatta
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
November 1997
Edition
New edition
Weight
291g
Page Count
192
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 12 mm
ISBN
9780195112627
ISBN-10
0195112628
Eden Code
1146741
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Author/Creator: John Gatta
ISBN: 9780195112627
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: November 1997
Weight: 291g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 12 mm
Eden Code: 1146741
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