American madonna : images of the divine woman in literary culture
著者
書誌事項
American madonna : images of the divine woman in literary culture
（Religion in America series）
Oxford University Press, 1997
- : cloth
- : paper
大学図書館所蔵 全22件
注記
Includes index
内容説明・目次
- 巻冊次
-
: cloth ISBN 9780195112610
内容説明
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 a deficiency of psychic feminity, 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.
- 巻冊次
-
: paper ISBN 9780195112627
内容説明
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.
「Nielsen BookData」 より