Nancy Koester

Harriet Beecher Stowe (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"e;So you're the little woman who started this big war,"e; Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery were numbered. Overnight Stowe became a celebrity, but to defenders of slavery she was the devil in petticoats.Most writing about Stowe treats her as a literary figure and social reformer while downplaying her Christian faith. But Nancy Koester's biography highlights Stowe's faith as central to her life -- both her public fight against slavery and her own personal struggle through deep grief to find a gracious God. Having meticulously researched Stowe's own writings, both published and un-published, Koester traces Stowe's faith pilgrimage from evangelical Calvinism through spiritualism to Anglican spirituality in a flowing, compelling narrative.Watch a 2014 interview with the author of this book here:

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781467439046
• Artikelnr.: 62874284