Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America /

"Heaven's Interpreters demonstrates how women writers of the American antebellum period used popular fictional genres to engage in theological debates and, in the process, brought into being new models of religious agency"--

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Main Author: Reed, Ashley, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
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505 0 |a Introduction : Writing Women's Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America -- "My Resolve is the Feminine of My Father's Oath" : Ritual Agency and Religious Language in the Early National Historical Novel -- "Unsheathe the Sword of a Strong, Unbending Will" : Sentimental Agency and the Doctrinal Work of Woman's Fiction -- "I Have Sinned against God and Myself" : Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women's Agency in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- "The Human Soul . . . Makes All Things Sacred" : Communal Agency in the Theological Romances of Harriet Beecher Stowe -- "I Have No Disbelief" : Women's Spiritualist Novels and Nonliberal Agencies -- Conclusion : Women's Religious Agency Today. 
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