Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God

by Gail Turley Houston

If Victorian women writers yearned for authorial forebears, or, in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words, for "grandmothers," there were, Gail Turley Houston argues, grandmothers who in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries envisioned powerful female divinities that would reconfigure society. Like many Victorian women writers, they experienced a sense of what Barrett Browning termed "mother-want" inextricably connected to "mother-god-want."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814255132
• ISBN13: 9780814255131
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"