Modernist Mary

Barry Spurr

Chapter Chapter 4 in See the Virgin Blest, 2007, pp 167-196 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Adams, in “The Dynamo and the Virgin” (1900), in The Education of Henry Adams (published in 1906), reflected: Symbol or energy, the Virgin had acted as the greatest force the Western world ever felt, and had drawn man’s activities to herself more strongly than any other power, natural or supernatural, had ever done; the historian’s business was to follow the track of the energy; to find wherever it came from and where it went to; its complex source and shifting channels; its values, equivalents, conversions.1

Keywords: Female Presence; Poetic Representation; Virgin Birth; Modernist Poet; Present Anxiety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-12140-0_5

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