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UNINA9910524850103321 |
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Reed Ashley <1975-> |
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Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America / / Ashley Reed |
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Cornell University Press, 2020 |
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Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2020 |
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©2020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Soggetti |
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Fiction - Religious aspects |
Women and religion - United States - History - 19th century |
Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Religion and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
United States Religion 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : Writing Women's Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America -- "My Resolve is the Feminine of My Father's Oath" : Ritual Agency and Religious Language in the Early National Historical Novel -- "Unsheathe the Sword of a Strong, Unbending Will" : Sentimental Agency and the Doctrinal Work of Woman's Fiction -- "I Have Sinned against God and Myself" : Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women's Agency in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- "The Human Soul . . . Makes All Things Sacred" : Communal Agency in the Theological Romances of Harriet Beecher Stowe -- "I Have No Disbelief" : Women's Spiritualist Novels and Nonliberal Agencies -- Conclusion : Women's Religious Agency Today. |
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"Heaven's Interpreters demonstrates how women writers of the American antebellum period used popular fictional genres to engage in |
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