TY - BOOK AU - Alvarez,Elizabeth Hayes TI - The valiant woman: the Virgin Mary in nineteenth-century American culture SN - 9781469627434 AV - BT603 .A48 2016eb U1 - 232.910973/09034 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Mary, KW - Marie, KW - Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Christian union KW - Christianity and art KW - United States KW - Christianity and literature KW - Marie, Sainte Vierge, et œcuménisme KW - Christianisme et art KW - États-Unis KW - Christianisme et littérature KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Theology KW - Christology KW - bisacsh KW - Christianity KW - Protestant KW - fast KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Symbolism KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary : conflict and conversation, 1854-1855 -- The immaculate conception and the elevation of the feminine, 1855-1860s -- "The woman highly blessed" : Marian art and Anna Jameson's "great hope," 1850s-1870s -- Revitalizing church and culture : the Marian heroines of Anna Dorsey and Alexander Stewart Walsh, 1880s-1890s -- Queen of heaven and queen of the home : Mary and models of domestic queenship, 1880s-1900 -- Epilogue. The immaculate conception proclamation's semicentennial N2 - Nineteenth-century America was rife with Protestant-fuelled anti-Catholicism. Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez reveals how Protestants nevertheless became surprisingly and deeply fascinated with the Virgin Mary. Documenting the Marian imagery that suffused popular visual and literary culture, Alvarez argues that Mary became a potent, shared exemplar of Christian womanhood around which Christians of all stripes rallied UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1074887 ER -