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050 0 4 _aPS147
_b.R44 2020
082 0 _a813/.3099287
_223
100 1 _aReed, Ashley,
_d1975-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHeaven's Interpreters :
_bWomen Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America /
_cAshley Reed.
264 1 _aIthaca [New York] :
_bCornell University Press,
_c2020.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2020
264 4 _c©2020.
300 _a1 online resource (276 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aFiction
_xReligious aspects.
650 0 _aWomen and religion
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aWomen and literature
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aReligion and literature
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xReligion
_y19th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
776 1 8 _iOnline version:
_aReed, Ashley, 1975-
_tHeaven's interpreters.
_dIthaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020
_z9781501751387
_w(DLC) 2019051195
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/77399/
999 _c234334
_d234333