The viper on the hearth : Mormons, myths, and the construction of heresy
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The viper on the hearth : Mormons, myths, and the construction of heresy
（Religion in America series）
Oxford University Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-196) and index
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Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people - the `viper on the hearth' - who sought to violate the domestic sphere of the mainstream. While other critics have mined the socio-political sources of anti-Mormonism, Givens is the first to reveal how popular fiction, in its attempt to deal with the
sources and nature of this conflict, constructed an image of the Mormon as a religious and social `Other'.
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