The valiant woman : the Virgin Mary in nineteenth-century American culture /

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Nineteenth-century America was rife with Protestant-fuelled anti-Catholicism. Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez reveals how Protestants nevertheless became surprisingly and deeply fascinated with the Virgin Mary. Documenting the Marian imagery that suffused popular visual and literary culture, Alvarez argues...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alvarez, Elizabeth Hayes (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Symbolism.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Influence.
Marie, > Sainte Vierge > Symbolisme.
Marie, > Sainte Vierge > Influence.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Christian union.
Christianity and art > United States.
Christianity and literature > United States.
Marie, Sainte Vierge, et œcuménisme.
Christianisme et art > États-Unis.
Christianisme et littérature > États-Unis.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Christology.
RELIGION > Christianity > Protestant.
Christianity and art
Christianity and literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Christian union
Symbolism
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary : conflict and conversation, 1854-1855
  • The immaculate conception and the elevation of the feminine, 1855-1860s
  • "The woman highly blessed" : Marian art and Anna Jameson's "great hope," 1850s-1870s
  • Revitalizing church and culture : the Marian heroines of Anna Dorsey and Alexander Stewart Walsh, 1880s-1890s
  • Queen of heaven and queen of the home : Mary and models of domestic queenship, 1880s-1900
  • Epilogue. The immaculate conception proclamation's semicentennial.

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