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
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