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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524850103321

Autore

Reed Ashley <1975->

Titolo

Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America / / Ashley Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2020

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-5017-5138-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

813/.3099287

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"Heaven's Interpreters demonstrates how women writers of the American antebellum period used popular fictional genres to engage in



theological debates and, in the process, brought into being new models of religious agency"--