The Heroines of Henry Longfellow
Domestic, Defiant, Divine- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 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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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-6669-1306-4
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-6669-1307-1
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 128
- Product type
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
- The Early Heroines No access Pages 15 - 28
- Evangeline No access Pages 29 - 48
- The Middle Heroines No access Pages 49 - 68
- Interlude No access Pages 69 - 74
- The Later Heroines No access Pages 75 - 92
- The Last Heroine No access Pages 93 - 110
- Domestic, Defiant, or Divine? No access Pages 111 - 120
- Bibliography No access Pages 121 - 124
- Index No access Pages 125 - 126
- About the Author No access Pages 127 - 128





