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American Madonna - Images of the Divine Woman in Literary Culture (Paperback, Revised)
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American Madonna - Images of the Divine Woman in Literary Culture (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Religion in America
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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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