Some wild visions
Subtitle: autobiographies by female itinerant evangelists in nineteenth-century America
By: Elizabeth Elkin Grammer
Series: Religion in America series; Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Women evangelists -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism; Autobiography -- Women authors; Women evangelists -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Autobiography -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 19th century
Description: This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct, from an array of materials, plausible identities as women and Christians in an age that found them hard to understand.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-194) and index