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oapen-20.500.12657-620312024-03-27T14:14:43Z Heaven's Interpreters Reed, Ashley secularism, religious fiction, historical novel, American women writers, Lydia Maria Child thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity::QRMP Christian life and practice 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. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories. 2023-03-29T15:48:57Z 2023-03-29T15:48:57Z 2022 book ONIX_20230329_9781501751387_17 9781501751387 9781501751370 9781501751363 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62031 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501751387.pdf 9781501751370.epub http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501751363/heavens-interpreters Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/kwk5-mb08 10.7298/kwk5-mb08 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 4d788369-486f-4cf8-90bd-ef693fe9606a 9781501751387 9781501751370 9781501751363 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) Cornell University Press 276 Ithaca [...] TOME Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem Virginia Tech open access
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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 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. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
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