The viper on the hearth [[electronic resource] ] : Mormons, myths, and the construction of heresy / / Terryl L. Givens

• Autore: Givens Terryl
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.683; 813.009382
• Soggetto topico: Mormon Church - History and criticism; American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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 CenturyNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
• 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.: 9910458374003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)