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



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Autore: Reed Ashley <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America / / Ashley Reed Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cornell University Press, 2020
Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2020
©2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 813/.3099287
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Religion 19th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: secularism, religious fiction, historical novel, American women writers, Lydia Maria Child
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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Heaven's Interpreters  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-5138-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910524850103321
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