Women of Faith in Victorian Culture - Reassessing the 'Angel in the House' (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1998
First published:	1998
Authors:	Andrew Bradstock
Editors:	Anne Hogan
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
Edition:	1998 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-21217-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN:	0-312-21217-8
Barcode:	9780312212179

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