Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America
| dc.contributor.author | Reed, Ashley | en |
| dc.contributor.department | English | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-10T20:16:20Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2021-01-10T20:16:20Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-09-15 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2021-01-10T20:16:05Z | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women writers of the antebellum period, Reed contends, embraced theological concepts to gain access to the literary sphere, challenging the notion that theological discourse was exclusively oppressive and served to deny women their own voice. Attending to modes of being and believing in works by Augusta Jane Evans, Harriet Jacobs, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Elizabeth Stoddard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner, Reed illuminates how these writers infused the secular space of fiction with religious ideas and debates, imagining new possibilities for women's individual agency and collective action. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Publication of this book was supported by Virginia Tech through the TOME Open Monograph Initiative. | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted version | en |
| dc.format.extent | 280 page(s) | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/epub+zip | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 1501751387 | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9781501751387 | en |
| dc.identifier.orcid | Reed, Ashley [0000-0002-0070-5364] | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101820 | en |
| dc.publisher | Cornell University Press | en |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Literary Criticism | en |
| dc.subject.lcc | PS147 .R44 2020 | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- Religious aspects | en |
| dc.title | Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America | en |
| dc.type | Book | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/All T&R Faculty | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/English | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/CLAHS T&R Faculty | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech | en |