Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry

by F. Elizabeth Gray

Book Overview

Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which has not. Gray visits the importance of the literature of Christian devotion to women's creative lives through an examination of the varied ways in which Victorian women reproduced and recreated traditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138878367
• ISBN13: 9781138878365
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"