| Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the 'Angel in the House' 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Bradstock, Andrew (Author), Hogan, Anne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0312212178 ISBN-13: 9780312212179 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1998 Annotation: An interdisciplinary study of Victorian women of faith as portrayed in the fiction and non-fiction of the period. The book explores how novelists, biographers and other writers depicted religious women, with special reference to the influence of the ideal of the "Angel in the House" as embodied in Coventry Patmores's poem of that name. Among those whose worked is explored are George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, George Moore and Anne Brontë , as well as hymnwriters, missionary biographers, non-conformists obituarists and artists of the Aesthetic Movement. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| LCCN: 97-38361 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.65" W x 8.73" (0.93 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An interdisciplinary study of Victorian women of faith as portrayed in the fiction and non-fiction of the period. The book explores how novelists, biographers and other writers depicted religious women, with special reference to the influence of the ideal of the 'Angel in the House' as embodied in Coventry Patmore's poem of that name. Among those whose work is explored are George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, George Moore and Anne Bront� as well as hymnwriters, missionary biographers, non-conformist obituarists and artists of the Aesthetic Movement. |