The Altar at Home : : Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion /

The Altar at Home : : Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion / / Claudia Stokes.

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Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental lite...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015
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Stokes, Claudia,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Revivals of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and the Second Great Awakening
  • Chapter 2. My Kingdom: Sentimentalism and the Refinement of Hymnody
  • Chapter 3. The Christian Plot: Stowe, Millennialism, and Narrative Form
  • Chapter 4. Derelict Daughters and Polygamous Wives: Mormonism and the Uses of Sentiment
  • Chapter 5. The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy and the Practice of Sentimentalism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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