Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America
E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-1-5017-5137-0
Verlag: Cornell University Press
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Attending to modes of being and believing in works by Augusta Jane Evans, Harriet Jacobs, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Elizabeth Stoddard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner, Reed illuminates how these writers infused the secular space of fiction with religious ideas and debates, imagining new possibilities for women's individual agency and collective action.
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Introduction: Writing Women's Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America
1. "My Resolve Is the Feminine of My Father's Oath": Ritual Agency and Religious Language in the Early National Historical Novel
2. "Unsheathe the Sword of a Strong, Unbending Will": Sentimental Agency and the Doctrinal Work of Woman's Fiction
3. "I Have Sinned against God and Myself ": Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women's Agency in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
4. "The Human Soul...Makes All Things Sacred": Communal Agency in the Theological Romances of Harriet Beecher Stowe
5. "I Have No Disbelief ": Women's Spiritualist Novels and Nonliberal Agencies
Conclusion: Women's Religious Agency Today