Scholars have long known that early American women wrote pious, sentimental stories. This book uses biographical and archival sources to understand how their religious concerns fed into debates about democracy and belief in a republic, and offers a new account of their political participation and the process of religious disestablishment.
Scholars have long known that early American women wrote pious, sentimental stories. This book uses biographical and archival sources to understand how their religious concerns fed into debates about democracy and belief in a republic, and offers a new account of their political participation and the process of religious disestablishment.
Gretchen Murphy is the Arthur J. Thaman and Wilhelmina Doré Thaman Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire (Duke University Press) and Shadowing the White Man's Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line (New York University Press).
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* Introduction * 1: Universalists and Jacobins in Judith Sargent Murray's The Gleaner * 2: The Wonder of Rational Christianity: The Illuminati and Sally Sayward Wood * 3: Lydia Sigourney in the Land of Steady Habits * 4: Suspending Unbelief: The Secular Threats of Catharine Sedgwick's Redwood * 5: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Evangelical Story of Disestablishment * Conclusion
* Introduction * 1: Universalists and Jacobins in Judith Sargent Murray's The Gleaner * 2: The Wonder of Rational Christianity: The Illuminati and Sally Sayward Wood * 3: Lydia Sigourney in the Land of Steady Habits * 4: Suspending Unbelief: The Secular Threats of Catharine Sedgwick's Redwood * 5: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Evangelical Story of Disestablishment * Conclusion
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