Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion
Subtitle: Lived Theologies and Literature
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781472410429
Subjects: American literature, women authors; American literature, history and criticism, 19th century; Religion and literature; Women and literature; Women and religion; United states, religion
Description: Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection takes up the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women's literature and articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural, political or spiritual ends. The contributors examine fiction, political and religious writings, memoirs, and poetry to reveal the complexities of lived religion in women's culture-both its repressive and its revolutionary potential --