LEADER 03285oam 22006494a 450 001 9910524850103321 005 20230621135343.0 010 $a1-5017-5138-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501751387 035 $a(CKB)5590000000000018 035 $a(OCoLC)1128061739 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse85306 035 $a(DE-B1597)541699 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501751387 035 $a(OCoLC)1233041191 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5972951 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5972951 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89161 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000000018 100 $a20191104d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHeaven's Interpreters$eWomen Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America /$fAshley Reed 210 $cCornell University Press$d2020 210 1$aIthaca [New York] :$cCornell University Press,$d2020. 210 4$dİ2020. 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a1-5017-5137-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $a"Heaven's Interpreters demonstrates how women writers of the American antebellum period used popular fictional genres to engage in theological debates and, in the process, brought into being new models of religious agency"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aFiction$xReligious aspects 606 $aWomen and religion$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aReligion and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 607 $aUnited States$xReligion$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $asecularism, religious fiction, historical novel, American women writers, Lydia Maria Child. 615 0$aFiction$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aWomen and religion$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813/.3099287 700 $aReed$b Ashley$f1975-$01057689 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524850103321 996 $aHeaven's Interpreters$92493714 997 $aUNINA