By F. Elizabeth Gray
ISBN-10: 0415805864
ISBN-13: 9780415805865
ISBN-10: 1138878367
ISBN-13: 9781138878365
Women within the Victorian interval have been stated to be the "religious sex," yet their courting to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was once either hugely circumscribed, which has been good documented, and complexly inventive, which has now not. grey visits the significance of the literature of Christian devotion to women's inventive lives via an exam of the numerous ways that Victorian girls reproduced and recreated conventional Christian texts of their personal poetic texts. Investigating how girls poets redeployed the discourse of Christianity to discover the a number of voices of the scriptures, to extend identification and gender buildings, and to question conventional narratives and methods of authorization, grey contends that girls present in spiritual poetry unforeseen, freeing probabilities. bearing in mind a number of voices, from the best-known lady poets of the day to a few of the main vague, this learn presents a entire account of Victorian women's spiritual poetic creativity, and argues that this physique of labor contributed to shaping the improvement of the lyric within the Victorian period.
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