Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England, 1830‐85

Authors

Carol M. Herringer, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow

Contributors

Georgia Southern faculty member Carol M. Herringer authored Victorians and the Virgin Mary Religion and gender in England, 1830–85.

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Abstract

This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women. Drawing on a variety of sources, this book seeks to revise our understanding of the Victorian religious landscape, both retrieving Catholics from the cultural margins to which they are usually relegated, and calling for a reassessment of the Protestant attitude to the feminine ideal.

This book will be useful to advanced students and scholars in a variety of disciplines including history, religious studies, Victorian studies, women's history and gender studies.

Publication Date

2008

Publisher

Manchester University Press

ISBN for this edition (13-digit)

1-84779-715-6

ISBN for additional format (13-digit)

1-78170-070-2

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© 2008 Manchester University Press