Our Lady of Victorian feminism
Subtitle: the Madonna in the work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot
By: Kimberly VanEsveld Adams.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Jameson, Mrs. 1794-1860 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- In literature.; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Art.; English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Christianity and literature -- History -- 19th century.; Feminism and literature -- History -- 19th century.; Feminism in literature.; Women in literature.; Feminism in art.; Women in art.
Description: "Our Lady of Victorian Feminism examines the writings of three nineteenth-century women, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-293) and index.