Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion

Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection takes up the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women's literature and articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural, political or spiritual ends. The contributors examine fiction, political and religious writings, memoirs, and poetry to reveal the complexities of lived religion in women's culture-both its repressive and its revolutionary potential.

Zusatztext '...makes a welcome contribution to the growing scholarly interest in women's religious attitudes and experiences in nineteenth-century America.' Nan Goodman! University of Colorado! Boulder 'This is a series of carefully thought out essays exploring women's personal spiritual authority and involvement in "religious conversations." ... Readers researching women's history and spirituality! American studies and religious studies will be interested. Footnotes! bibliography and index provided.' Magistra Informationen zum Autor Mary McCartin Wearn is Associate Professor of English and Assistant Vice President of Academic Planning and Policy at Middle Georgia State College. Klappentext Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection takes up the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women's literature and articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural, political or spiritual ends. The contributors examine fiction, political and religious writings, memoirs, and poetry to reveal the complexities of lived religion in women's culture-both its repressive and its revolutionary potential. Zusammenfassung Nineteenth-century American women's culture was immersed in religious experience and female authors of the era employed representations of faith to various cultural ends. Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts! this collection explores the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women's literature. The contributors examine fiction! political writings! poetry! and memoirs by professional authors! social activists! and women of faith! including Elizabeth Stuart Phelps! Angelina and Sarah Grimké! Louisa May Alcott! Rebecca Harding Davis! Harriet E. Wilson! Sarah Piatt! Julia Ward Howe! Julia A. J. Foote! Lucy Mack Smith! Rebecca Cox Jackson! and Fanny Newell. Embracing the complexities of lived religion in women's culture-both its repressive and its revolutionary potential-Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural! political! or spiritual ends. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Mary McCartinWearn; Chapter 1 Renegade Religious, Nancy F.Sweet; Chapter 2 Shaping Narrative, Joy A. J.Howard; Chapter 3 Composing Radical Lives, RachelCope; Chapter 4 Come Right Down With Me, Benjamin G.Sammons; Chapter 5 Religious Popular Culture and the Critique of Romantic Racialism in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig, Randi LynnTanglen; Chapter 6 One, Hermaphroditic] Angel, KarlynCrowley; Chapter 7 The Grace of God Assisting, Valerie D.Levy; Chapter 8 A Religion of Their Own, GregoryEiselein; Chapter 9 A startling reform, RoxanneHarde; Chapter 10 The Puritan Roots of Sarah Piatt's Feminist Materialism, Mary McCartinWeam;...

Autorentext
Mary McCartin Wearn is Associate Professor of English and Assistant Vice President of Academic Planning and Policy at Middle Georgia State College.

Zusammenfassung
Nineteenth-century American women's culture was immersed in religious experience and female authors of the era employed representations of faith to various cultural ends. Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection explores the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women's literature. The contributors examine fiction, political writings, poetry, and memoirs by professional authors, social activists, and women of faith, including Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Harriet E. Wilson, Sarah Piatt, Julia Ward Howe, Julia A. J. Foote, Lucy Mack Smith, Rebecca Cox Jackson, and Fanny Newell. Embracing the complexities of lived religion in women's culture-both its repressive and its revolutionary potential-Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural, political, or spiritual ends.

Inhalt
Introduction, Mary McCartinWearn; Chapter 1 Renegade Religious, Nancy F.Sweet; Chapter 2 Shaping Narrative, Joy A. J.Howard; Chapter 3 Composing Radical Lives, RachelCope; Chapter 4 Come Right Down With Me, Benjamin G.Sammons; Chapter 5 Religious Popular Culture and the Critique of Romantic Racialism in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig, Randi LynnTanglen; Chapter 6 One, Hermaphroditic] Angel, KarlynCrowley; Chapter 7 The Grace of God Assisting, Valerie D.Levy; Chapter 8 A Religion of Their Own, GregoryEiselein; Chapter 9 A startling reform, RoxanneHarde; Chapter 10 The Puritan Roots of Sarah Piatt's Feminist Materialism, Mary McCartinWeam;