Prayer and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing

"In the 19th century, an era that saw a reconfiguration of the relationship between the self, the world and the divine, women writers probed the theological depths of embodied faith in new ways through poetry, fictional, devotional prose and life writing. Elizabeth Ludlow explores how eight writers (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Josephine Butler, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dora Greenwell, Felicia Hemans, Adelaide Anne Proctor and Christina Rossetti) articulated what it means to pray, and thereby understand one's place in a world of individual and communal bodies"--