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American Madonna: Images of the Divine Woman in Literary Culture (Religion in America) | 
| Author: John Gatta
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2224103
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0195112628
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.9351
EAN: 9780195112627
ASIN: 0195112628
Publication Date: November 27, 1997
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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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