Cassandra L Yacovazzi

Escaped Nuns

True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America

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Produktbeschreibung

On the eve of the Civil War, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu, a convent expos¿y a fraudulent "escaped nun" Maria Monk, captivated readers. The book served as a centerpiece for a larger campaign against convents, marked by riots, propaganda, and nativist politics, and reflected deep concerns regarding women, religious life, and the fate of the Republic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190881009
• ISBN-10: 0190881003
• Artikelnr.: 50989603

Autorenporträt

Cassandra L. Yacovazzi is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on American cultural, religious, and gender history in the nineteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction - The American Campaign against Convents
* Chapter One - An Escaped Nun: Maria Monk and Her Awful Disclosures
* Chapter Two - Burning Babylon: The Attack Against Mount Benedict and
the Birth of the Convent Narrative
* Chapter Three - Uncle Tom and Sister Maria: Womanhood in the
Anti-Slavery and Anti-Convent Campaigns
* Chapter Four - Textbook Popery: Convent Schools, the Feminization of
Teaching, and the Nation's Children
* Chapter Five - Hidden Dangers: Convent Cellars, City Haunts, and the
Rise of Dark-Lantern Politics
* Chapter Six - Awful Disclosures of Mormonism: Convents, Polygamy, and
the Fear of Female Sexual Deviance
* Chapter Seven - The Nunnery Sleuths: Convent Investigations and the
Massachusetts Know Nothing Party
* Epilogue - Solving a Problem like Maria: Imagining Sisters from Maria
Monk to Nunsense