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Tables of Contents for American Madonna
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
7
The Sacred Woman: The Problem of Hawthorne's Madonnas
10
23
Of Holy Mothers and Dark Ladies
10
5
Hester's Divine Maternity
15
5
Queen Zenobia of Blithedale
20
6
The New England Maiden and the Fallen Goddess of The Marble Faun
26
5
Hawthorne's Search for Sacred Love: From Puritan Fathers to Divine Mothers
31
2
The Virginal Soul of Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century
33
20
Queen Margaret's Mythmaking
33
1
``Her own creator'': Images of Self-fashioning in Minerva, Leila, and Mary through 1844
34
7
The Mary Victoria of Woman in the Nineteenth Century
41
12
Calvinism Feminized: Divine Matriarchy in Harriet Beecher Stowe
53
19
Godly Maternity and Motherly Jesus
53
5
Birthpangs of the New Order in Uncle Tom's Cabin
58
4
The Ministry of Mary in The Minister's Wooing
62
5
Other Appearances of the Madonna-Intercessor in Agnes of Sorrento, Poganuc People, and The Pearl of Orr's Island
67
4
Sacrament of Mother-Love, Compassion of the Mater Dolorosa
71
1
The Sexual Madonna in Harold Frederic's Damnation of Thereon Ware
72
23
The Post-Romantic Madonna of the Future
72
4
Celia Madden: Catholic Madonna or Sex Goddess?
76
8
From Maya and Mary to the New Woman
84
7
The Unsettling Character of Soulsby and the Undoing of Ware
91
2
Beyond Illusion: The Grace of Critical Realism
93
2
Henry Adams: The Virgin as Dynamo
95
21
The Woman Unknown in America
95
1
The Adamic Quest for New Eve
96
3
``The place has no heart'': Preserves of Womanly Grace in Democracy and Esther
99
6
Mary of Chartres as Personal Presence and Romantic Ideal
105
5
Adam's Education: The Unknowable and Generative Woman
110
6
Eliot's Archetypal Lady of Sea and Garden: The Recovery of Myth
116
21
Myth, Modernism, and Lady Mary
116
2
The Sibyl and Belladonna of The Waste Land
118
3
Toward Our Lady of la Vita Nuova
121
3
Eliot's Soul Sisters: The Sacred and Profane Ladies of ``Ash-Wednesday''
124
7
``Best Dead Madonna this side Atlantic'': ``The Dry Salvages'' and the Quartets
131
6
EPILOGUE
137
14
APPENDIX:
``Raphael's Deposition from the Cross,''
Margaret Fuller
``Mary at the Cross'' and ``The Sorrows of Mary,''
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Excerpt from ``The Golden Legend''
141
10
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Notes
151
22
Index
173