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The Heroines of Henry Longfellow

Domestic, Defiant, Divine
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 2022

Summary

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poems are filled with powerful heroines, from Evangeline, the exiled wanderer, to Vittoria Colonna, the aging genius of the Italian renaissance. In The Heroines of Henry Longfellow: Domestic, Defiant, Divine, Timothy E. G. Bartel provides a survey of Longfellow’s major heroines, placing them in the context of Longfellow’s body of work and the poet’s interests in theology, politics, and history. Though Longfellow’s heroines have sometimes been dismissed as mere domestic caricatures, Bartel argues that Longfellow’s heroines are nothing of the sort. Instead, they provide us with unique pictures of how one’s individual talents and desires can be harmonized with the Christian ideals of communal justice, ethical living, and ultimate union with the Divine.

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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1306-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1307-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
128
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Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
  1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
  2. The Early Heroines No access Pages 15 - 28
  3. Evangeline No access Pages 29 - 48
  4. The Middle Heroines No access Pages 49 - 68
  5. Interlude No access Pages 69 - 74
  6. The Later Heroines No access Pages 75 - 92
  7. The Last Heroine No access Pages 93 - 110
  8. Domestic, Defiant, or Divine? No access Pages 111 - 120
  9. Bibliography No access Pages 121 - 124
  10. Index No access Pages 125 - 126
  11. About the Author No access Pages 127 - 128

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