The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature

The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature shows the extent of maternal theology in Victorian thought, and its cultural roots. The book reveals a new way in which Victorian writers creatively negotiations between religious tradition and modernity.

Rebecca Styler is Associate Professor in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. Having received her PhD from the University of Leicester, she has published in nineteenth-century literature, religion and gender, including a monograph Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century (2010) and numerous articles and book chapters on writers including Anna Jameson, Anne Brontë, Josephine Butler and Elizabeth Gaskell, as well as on feminist utopias and religious life writing.