Title The altar at home : sentimental literature and nineteenth-century American religion / Claudia Stokes

Edition 1st ed Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2014

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Description 1 online resource 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 Summary The Altar at Home explores the many religious contexts and contents of the sentimental literature of the American nineteenth century, arguing that this genre played a dynamic role in the development of revivalism, millennialism, feminism, and other forms of heterodoxy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century Sentimentalism in literature. Christianity in literature. American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature. American literature -- Women authors. Christianity in literature. Religion and literature. Sentimentalism in literature. United States. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 0812290143 9780812290141

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