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Autore |
Givens Terryl |
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Titolo |
The viper on the hearth : Mormons, myths, and the construction of heresy / / Terryl L. Givens |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-52850-8 |
0-19-535634-9 |
1-4294-1526-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Collana |
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Religion in America series |
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Soggetti |
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Latter Day Saint churches - History and criticism |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
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Formato |
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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Contents; Introduction; 1 ""Out of the Sphere of Religion"": The Sacred, the Profane, and the Mormons; 2 ""This Upstart Sect"": The Mormon Problem in American History; 3 ""Manners, Habits, Customs, and Even Dialect"": Sources of the Mormon Conflict; 4 ""An Age of Humbugs"": The Contemporary Scene; 5 ""This Great Modern Abomination"": Orthodoxy and Heresy in American Religion; 6 ""Ground in the Presbyterian Smut Machine"": The Popular Press, Fiction, and Moral Crusading; 7 ""They Ain't Whites . . . They're Mormons"": Fictive Responses to the Anxiety of Seduction; 8 ""Murder and Mystery-Mormon Style"": The Mormon Image in the Twentieth Century; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Nineteenth-century American writers cast the Mormon as a villain in fictional genres. The Mormons were depicted as a violent people who sought to violate the domestic sphere of the mainstream. This work shows how popular fiction constructed an image of the Mormon as a religious and social ""other"". |
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