Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America / / Ashley Reed
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| Autore: |
Reed Ashley <1975->
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| Titolo: |
Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America / / Ashley Reed
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-5017-5138-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910524850103321 |
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