The Man Who Would Be Perfect : : John Humphrey Noyes and the Utopian Impulse / / Robert David Thomas.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1977 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. A Time of Turmoil: John Humphrey Noyes’s Youth and His Religious Conversion
- 2. On the Road to Damascus: Andover, Yale, and a Perfectionist Ideology
- 3. Perfectionism, Anxiety, “The New York Experience”
- 4. Obsessional Behavior: Perfection, Assertions of Leadership, and Disrupted Relationships
- 5. The Quest for Security: Love, Sex, and Marriage
- 6. Institutional Order and Disorder: Paternal Authority and the Family
- 7. Health: A Matter of Life and Death
- 8. Noyes: The Democratic Theocrat
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index