Narrative Inversion The Biblical Heritage of The Well of Loneliness and Desert of the Heart

• Published in: Journal of homosexuality Vol. 33; no. 3-4; pp. 187 - 206
• Main Author: Breen, Margaret Soenser
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.1997; Haworth Press
• Subjects: Bible; England; Famous Persons; Female; Hall; History of medicine; History, 20th Century; Homosexuality, Female - history; Humans; Literature, Modern - history; England

The Bible acts as an epistemological anchor for the English Bildungsroman; however, the biblical narratives are themselves in flux, especially with regard to representations of spiritual development gendered feminine. The extent to which one can consider the traveling/travailling mother a spirituall...