By Nina Auerbach
Here is a daring new imaginative and prescient of Victorianculture: a examine of myths of womanhoodthat shatters the standard generalizationsabout the squeezed, beaten, and ego-less Victorian woman.
Through copious examples drawn fromliterature, artwork, and biography, Auerbachreconstructs 3 primary paradigms:the angel/demon, the outdated maid, and thefallen lady. She exhibits how those animate a pervasive Victorian imaginative and prescient of amobile woman outcast with divine anddemonic powers. worry of such disruptive, self-creating figures, Auerbach argues, produces the licensed excellent of thedutiful, family-bound girl. The awethey encourage affiliates them with characters in literature, the one autos ofimmortality in whom so much Victorianscould unreservedly believe.
Auerbach appears at an excellent sort ofsources: Svengali, Dracula, and Freud;poets and significant and minor novelistsCarlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Ruskin;lives of girls, nice and unknown;Anglican sisterhoods and Magdalenhomes; bardolatry and the theater; Pre- Raphaelite work and contemporarycartoons and ebook illustrations. Reinterpreting a medley of fantasies, she demonstratesthat lady powers encouraged a shiny mythcentral to the spirit of the age.
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SOURCES 1. JAMES AND THE PURITANS Source A: From the Millenary Petition, presented to James in April 1604. We the ministers of the gospel in this land, neither as factious men affecting a popular parity in the Church, nor as schismatics aiming at the dissolution of the state ecclesiastical; but as the faithful servants of Christ, and loyal subjects to your Majesty, desiring and longing for the redress of divers abuses of the Church … [request] … I. … That the cross in baptism … may be taken away; … the cap and surplice not urged … II.
How far did James succeed in achieving his goal of ‘a general Christian union in religion’? 2. To what extent was James’s treatment of Puritans and Catholics guided by a similar strategy? ANALYSIS (2): HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS JACOBEAN RELIGIOUS POLICY? J. P. ’ 13 Against this, other historians have suggested that the Jacobean religious equilibrium was at best fragile, and that it disintegrated rapidly from about 1618 onwards. In assessing these different interpretations, much depends on which portion of the reign is examined, and a similarly mixed picture emerges when we consider the ‘British’ dimension of Jacobean religious policy.
10 However, as C. Durston has pointed out, ‘this apparently painless revenue source did have some serious repercussions as it brought the Crown into disrespect and created some considerable animosity between the old and new peers’. 11 In the Parliament of 1621 the Commons turned to investigate the royal grants of patents and monopolies which many blamed for the current economic crisis. This was delicate ground to tread, eventually leading to the revival of the medieval process of impeachment, a form of trial where the Lower House acted as prosecutors and the Upper as judge and jury.
