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Zusatztext ...there is little denying the importance of the larger impression that each essay leaves when read as part of an interlocking whole. Upon completion the reader should leave fully convinced that the record that Smith claimed to unearth yet has many things to reveal regarding its own complexity as a literary text, as well as insights into the culture of 19th-century America. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Fenton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture (Oxford, 2011).Jared Hickman is Associate Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery (Oxford, 2016) and co-editor (with Martha Schoolman) of Abolitionist Places (Routledge, 2016). Klappentext As the eponymous sacred text of a modern religious movement of global reach, The Book of Mormon has undeniable historical significance. That significance, this volume shows, is inextricable from the intricacy of its literary form and the audacity of its historical vision. This landmark collection brings together a diverse range of scholars in American literary studies and adjacent fields to definitively establish The Book of Mormon as an indispensable object of Americanist inquiry not least because it is, among other things, a form of Americanist inquiry in its own right--a creative, critical reading of "America." Zusammenfassung As the sacred text of a modern religious movement of global reach, The Book of Mormon has undeniable historical significance. That significance, this volume shows, is inextricable from the intricacy of its literary form and the audacity of its historical vision. This landmark collection brings together a diverse range of scholars in American literary studies and related fields to definitively establish The Book of Mormon as an indispensable object of Americanist inquiry not least because it is, among other things, a form of Americanist inquiry in its own right--a creative, critical reading of "America." Drawing on formalist criticism, literary and cultural theory, book history, religious studies, and even anthropological field work, Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon captures as never before the full dimensions and resonances of this "American Bible." Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Plates and Print 1: R. John Williams: The Ghost and the Machine: Plates and Paratext in The Book of Mormon 2: Jillian Sayre: Books Buried in the Earth: The Book of Mormon, Revelation, and the Humic Foundations of the Nation 3: Paul Gutjahr: Orson Pratt's Enduring Influence on The Book of Mormon Part Two: Scripture and Secularity 4: Grant Hardy: The Book of Mormon and the Bible 5: Eran Shalev: An American Book of Chronicles: Pseudo-Biblicism and the Cultural Origins of The Book of Mormon 6: Samuel Brown: "To Read the Round of Eternity": Speech, Text, and Scripture in The Book of Mormon 7: Laura Thiemann Scales: "The writing of the fruit of thy loins": Reading, Writing, and Prophecy in The Book of Mormon 8: Grant Shreve: Nephite Secularization; or, Picking and Choosing in The Book of Mormon Part Three: Indigeneity and Imperialism 9: Nancy Bentley: Kinship, The Book of Mormon, and Modern Revelation 10: Peter Coviello: How the Mormons Became White: Scripture, Sex, Sovereignty 11: Elizabeth Fenton: Nephites and Israelites: The Book of Mormon and the Hebraic Indian Theory 12: Kimberly Berkey and Joseph Spencer: "Great Cause to Mourn": The Complexity of The Book of Mormon's Presentation of Gender and Race 13: Stanley J. Thayne: "We're going to take our land back over": Reading The Book of Mormon from an Indigenous Space Part Four: Genre and Generation 14: Terryl Givens: The Book of Mormon and the Reshapin...
