Claudia Stokes

The Altar at Home

Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

Claudia Stokes is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. She is the author of Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910 and coeditor of American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780812246377
• ISBN-10: 0812246373
• Artikelnr.: 40921289

Autorenporträt

Claudia Stokes

Inhaltsangabe

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