Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America

by Ashley Reed

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1501751360

ISBN13:9781501751363

Release Date:September 2020

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:276 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality

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