| Description |
xv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Mary Grey -- Introduction / Anne Hogan and Andrew Bradstock -- 1. The Drunkard, the Brute and the Paterfamilias: The Temperance Fiction of the Early Victorian Writer Sarah Stickney Ellis / Henrietta Twycross-Martin -- 2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Rejecting the Angel's Influence / Siv Jansson -- 3. Double Blessedness: Anna Kingsford and Beatrice / Peter Merchant -- 4. Sisterhood is Powerful: Christina Rossetti's Maude / Frederick S. Roden -- 5. Fedalma - 'The Angel of a Homeless Tribe': Issues of Religion, Race and Gender in George Eliot's Poetic Drama, The Spanish Gypsy / Joss West-Burnham -- 6. Angel or Eve?: Victorian Catholicism and the Angel in the House / Anne Hogan -- 7. From Hearth to Heath: Angelic Transformations in May Sinclair's Major Novels / Terry Phillips -- 8. The Angel in the House of Death: Gender and Subjectivity in George MacDonald's Lilith / William Gray -- 9. Quiet Angels: Some Women Hymn-writers / J. R. Watson |
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10. Nonconformist Obituaries: How Stereotyped was their View of Women? / Linda Wilson -- 11. The Paradigmatic Angel in the House: The Virgin Mary and Victorian Anglicans / Carol Marie Engelhardt -- 12. Heroines of Missionary Adventure: The Portrayal of Victorian Women Missionaries in Popular Fiction and Biography / Sean Gill -- 13. The Victorian Lady's Domestic Threat: The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent Female Adversary in Contemporary Art / Susan P. Casteras -- 14. The Power of Womanhood: Religion and Sexual Politics in the Writings of Ellice Hopkins / Sue Morgan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Angels in literature.
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Christian literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Christianity and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and religion -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056823
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| Author |
Bradstock, Andrew.
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Hogan, Anne.
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| LC no. |
97038361 |
| ISBN |
0312212178 |
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0333694554 |
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