Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion - Lived Theologies and Literature

Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection takes up the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women's literature and articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural, political or spiritual ends. The contributors examine fiction, political and religious writings, memoirs, and poetry to reveal the complexities of lived religion in women's culture-both its repressive and its revolutionary potential --

List of contents

Introduction, Mary McCartinWearn; Chapter 1 Renegade Religious, Nancy F.Sweet; Chapter 2 Shaping Narrative, Joy A. J.Howard; Chapter 3 Composing Radical Lives, RachelCope; Chapter 4 “Come Right Down With Me”, Benjamin G.Sammons; Chapter 5 Religious Popular Culture and the Critique of Romantic Racialism in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig, Randi LynnTanglen; Chapter 6 “One, Hermaphroditic] Angel”, KarlynCrowley; Chapter 7 “The Grace of God Assisting”, Valerie D.Levy; Chapter 8 “A Religion of Their Own”, GregoryEiselein; Chapter 9 “A startling reform”, RoxanneHarde; Chapter 10 The Puritan Roots of Sarah Piatt’s Feminist Materialism, Mary McCartinWeam;

About the author

Mary McCartin Wearn is Associate Professor of English and Assistant Vice President of Academic Planning and Policy at Middle Georgia State College.

Summary

Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection takes up the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women's literature and articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural, political or spiritual ends. The contributors examine fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Assoc. Prof. Mary Mccartin Wearn, Mary McCartin Wearn
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2014
• EAN: 9781472410429
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-1042-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Religion: general, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism