American Madonna

American Madonna
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9780195354607
ISBN-13 : 0195354605
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Book Synopsis American Madonna by : John Gatta

Download or read book American Madonna written by John Gatta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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