The altar at home : sentimental literature and nineteenth-century American religion / Claudia Stokes.
Series: JSTOR EBAPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, �2014.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 0812290143
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- 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
- 1800-1899
- 810.9/3823 23
- PS374.R47 S76 2014
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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.