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

Stokes, Claudia, 1970-

The altar at home : sentimental literature and nineteenth-century American religion / Claudia Stokes. - 1st ed. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, �2014. - 1 online resource - JSTOR EBA. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.


In English.

0812290143 9780812290141

10.9783/9780812290141 doi

22573/ctt70q3hm JSTOR

016823606 Uk


1800-1899


Religion and literature--History--United States--19th century.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Christianity in literature.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American literature.
American literature--Women authors.
Christianity in literature.
Religion and literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.


United States.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

PS374.R47 / S76 2014

810.9/3823

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