LEADER 04713nam 2200745 450 001 9910786516503321 005 20210427030905.0 010 $a0-8122-9014-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812290141 035 $a(CKB)3710000000213178 035 $a(OCoLC)886597842 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10896789 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001267497 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11740399 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001267497 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11255808 035 $a(PQKB)10085347 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35470 035 $a(DE-B1597)449867 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812290141 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442393 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10896789 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682529 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442393 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000213178 100 $a20140726h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe altar at home $esentimental literature and nineteenth-century American religion /$fClaudia Stokes 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51247-7 311 0 $a0-8122-4637-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Revivals of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and the Second Great Awakening --$tChapter 2. My Kingdom: Sentimentalism and the Refinement of Hymnody --$tChapter 3. The Christian Plot: Stowe, Millennialism, and Narrative Form --$tChapter 4. Derelict Daughters and Polygamous Wives: Mormonism and the Uses of Sentiment --$tChapter 5. The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy and the Practice of Sentimentalism --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aDisplays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental literature, Claudia Stokes counters the long-standing characterization of sentimental piety as blandly nondescript and demonstrates that these works were in fact groundbreaking, assertive, and highly specific in their theological recommendations and endorsements. The Altar at Home explores the many religious contexts and contents of sentimental literature of the American nineteenth century, from the growth of Methodism in the Second Great Awakening and popular millennialism to the developing theologies of Mormonism and Christian Science. Through analysis of numerous contemporary religious debates, Stokes demonstrates how sentimental writers, rather than offering simple depictions of domesticity, instead manipulated these scenes to advocate for divergent new beliefs and bolster their own religious authority. On the one hand, the comforting rhetoric of domesticity provided a subtle cover for sentimental writers to advance controversial new beliefs, practices, and causes such as Methodism, revivalism, feminist theology, and even the legitimacy of female clergy. On the other hand, sentimentality enabled women writers to bolster and affirm their own suitability for positions of public religious leadership, thereby violating the same domestic enclosure lauded by the texts. The Altar at Home offers a fascinating new historical perspective on the dynamic role sentimental literature played in the development of innumerable new religious movements and practices, many of which remain popular today. 606 $aReligion and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSentimentalism in literature 606 $aChristianity in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 615 0$aSentimentalism in literature. 615 0$aChristianity in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9/3823 700 $aStokes$b Claudia$f1970-$01559424 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786516503321 996 $aThe altar at home$93824507 997 $aUNINA