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Autore: | Givens Terryl |
Titolo: | The viper on the hearth : Mormons, myths, and the construction of heresy / / Terryl L. Givens |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
Disciplina: | 305.683 |
813.009382 | |
Soggetto topico: | Latter Day Saint churches - History and criticism |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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"". |
Titolo autorizzato: | The viper on the hearth |
ISBN: | 1-280-52850-8 |
0-19-535634-9 | |
1-4294-1526-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784877803321 |
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