Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife

A Step Closer to Heaven

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvJennifer McFarlane-Harris,Emily Hamilton-Honey

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This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women’s theology-making and appeals for social justice. Authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Martha Finley, Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, Zilpha Elaw, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Belinda Marden Pratt, and others wrote to have a voice in the moral debates that were consuming churches and national politics. These texts are expressions of the lives and dynamic minds of women who developed sophisticated, systematic spiritual and textual approaches to the divine, to their denominations or religious traditions, and to the mainstream culture around them. Women do not simply live out theologies authored by men. Rather, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven is grounded in the radical notion that the theological principles crafted by women and derived from women’s experiences, intellectual habits, and organizational capabilities are foundational to American literature itself.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-07-13
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt449 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Research in American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor230
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367528379

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IntroductionPART 1: (GOD)MOTHERS OF THEOLOGY: HARRIET BEECHER STOWE AND ELIZBETH STUART PHELPS1. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Christian Scholar? A Touch of Feeling in The Gates AjarBy Brianna Thompson 2. Heaven as a Potential Space: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ Afterlife NovelsBy James A. Godley3. Rewriting Heaven: Salvation and the Afterlife in the Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsBy Jennine Gleghorn4. The Archetypal Girl Savior and the Child Theologian: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Little Eva and Martha Finley’s Elsie DinsmoreBy LuElla D’AmicoPART 2: SELF-MADE THEOLOGIES: BLACK WOMEN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS5. "As to the Nature of Uncommon Expressions": Jarena Lee’s Supernatural Worldview in The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena LeeBy Margaret Lowe6. Conversion and Counter-memory: Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, and the Spiritual Motherhood of Mary MagdaleneBy Elisabeth McClanahan Harris7. "What Absurdity Next?": The Precarious Pulpits of Zilpha Elaw, Black Woman Evangelist (1820-65)By Kimberly Blockett 8. "Aleaving the World, the Flesh, and the Devil": Spiritual Vision and Celibate Holiness in Rebecca Cox Jackson’s Autobiographical WritingsBy Jennifer McFarlane-Harris PART 3: WOMEN AND UTOPIAN THEOLOGIES9. Discovering the Soul of the New Republic: The Early Fiction of Catherine Maria SedgwickBy Joan Varnum Ferretti 10. "The Family Order of Heaven": Belinda Marden Pratt’s Apology for PolygamyBy Zachary McLeod Hutchins11. Theologies of the Afterlife in Mormon Women’s Late-Nineteenth-Century PoetryBy Amy Easton-Flake 12. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Brook Farm, and the Heaven of AssociationBy Mark Gallagher