TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reed,Ashley
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Heaven's Interpreters : : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America / 
SN  - 9781501751370
AV  - PS147 .R44 2020
U1  - 813/.3099287 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ithaca [New York]
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Women and religion
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Religion and literature
KW  - American fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Religion
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Open Access
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/77399/
ER  -