Description
Book SynopsisClaudia 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.
Trade Review"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 *
"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 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1. Revivals of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and the Second Great Awakening
Chapter 2. My Kingdom: Sentimentalism and the Refinement of Hymnody
Chapter 3. The Christian Plot: Stowe, Millennialism, and Narrative Form
Chapter 4. Derelict Daughters and Polygamous Wives: Mormonism and the Uses of Sentiment
Chapter 5. The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy and the Practice of Sentimentalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
