The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature

by Rebecca Styler

This book is the study of a religious metaphor: the idea of God as a mother, in British and US literature 1850-1915. It uncovers a tradition of writers for whom divine motherhood embodied ideals felt to be missing from the orthodox masculine deity. Elizabeth Gaskell, Josephine Butler, George Macdonald, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Charlotte Perkins Gilman independently reworked their inherited faith to create a new symbol that better met their religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367473631
• ISBN13: 9780367473631
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"