Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion: Lived Theologies and Literature

Assoc Prof Mary McCartin Wearn

Feb 2014 · Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

About this ebook

Nineteenth-century American women’s culture was immersed in religious experience and female authors of the era employed representations of faith to various cultural ends. Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection explores the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women’s literature. The contributors examine fiction, political writings, poetry, and memoirs by professional authors, social activists, and women of faith, including Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Harriet E. Wilson, Sarah Piatt, Julia Ward Howe, Julia A. J. Foote, Lucy Mack Smith, Rebecca Cox Jackson, and Fanny Newell. Embracing the complexities of lived religion in women’s culture-both its repressive and its revolutionary potential-Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural, political, or spiritual ends.

About the author

Mary McCartin Wearn is Associate Professor of English and Assistant Vice President of Academic Planning and Policy at Middle Georgia State College.

Mary McCartin Wearn; Nancy F. Sweet; Joy A.J. Howard; Rachel Cope; ‘Benjamin G. Sammons; Randi Lynn Tanglen; Karlyn Crowley; Valerie D. Levy; ‘Gregory Eiselein, Roxanne Harde.