Heaven's Interpreters
Subtitle: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781501751363
Subjects: American fiction, women authors; American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century; Religion and literature; Women and literature; Women and religion; United states, religion; Fiction, religious aspects
Description: "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"--