{"product_id":"the-altar-at-home-sentimental-literature-and-nineteenthcentury-american-religion-9780812246377","title":"The Altar at Home Sentimental Literature and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaudia 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Revivals of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and the Second Great Awakening\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. My Kingdom: Sentimentalism and the Refinement of Hymnody\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Christian Plot: Stowe, Millennialism, and Narrative Form\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Derelict Daughters and Polygamous Wives: Mormonism and the Uses of Sentiment\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy and the Practice of Sentimentalism\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577539760471,"sku":"9780812246377","price":55.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812246377.jpg?v=1746095744","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-altar-at-home-sentimental-literature-and-nineteenthcentury-american-religion-9780812246377","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}