The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion

Claudia Stokes

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2014

The Altar at Home

Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion

Claudia Stokes

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812290141

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About this book

The Altar at Home explores the many religious contexts and contents of the sentimental literature of the American nineteenth century, arguing that this genre played a dynamic role in the development of revivalism, millennialism, feminism, and other forms of heterodoxy.

Author / Editor information

Claudia Stokes is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. She is the author of Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910 and coeditor of American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader.

Reviews

"This is an excellent book—well researched, innovative, and beautifully written. Claudia Stokes shows a mastery of both literary sentimentalism and religious history, which she uses to bring out compelling new insights about what it meant for women to draw on sentimental codes as they forged new ways of participating in religious culture and public discussions."—Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania

"Claudia Stokes presents a more textured account and provocatively mixed assessment of the sentimental tradition of American women's letters than we have yet encountered."—Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Revivals of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and the Second Great Awakening Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. My Kingdom: Sentimentalism and the Refinement of Hymnody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 3. The Christian Plot: Stowe, Millennialism, and Narrative Form Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 4. Derelict Daughters and Polygamous Wives: Mormonism and the Uses of Sentiment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Chapter 5. The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy and the Practice of Sentimentalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Keywords: Literature; Religion; Cultural Studies; Religious Studies

eBook

Published: July 17, 2014
ISBN: 9780812290141