Title Heaven's interpreters women writers and religious agency in nineteenth-century America / Ashley Reed.

Publication Info.	Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2020.
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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
Summary	"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"-- Provided by publisher
Note	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 01, 2022).
Language	In English.
Subject	American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women and religion -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Fiction -- Religious aspects.
	United States -- Religion -- 19th century.
	Literary Criticism -- Modern -- 19th Century.
	Literary Criticism -- Women Authors.
	American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
	American fiction -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst00807099
	Fiction -- Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst00923746
	Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
	Religion and literature. (OCoLC)fst01093839
	Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
	Women and religion. (OCoLC)fst01177110
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Indexed Term	secularism, religious fiction, historical novel, American women writers, Lydia Maria Child.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Reed, Ashley, 1975- Heaven's interpreters. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020 9781501751363 (DLC) 2019051194 (OCoLC)1127072834
ISBN	9781501751370 electronic book
	1501751379 electronic book
	9781501751387 electronic book
	1501751387 electronic book
Standard No.	10.1515/9781501751387 doi

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