Nineteenth-century American women writers and theologies of the afterlife : a step closer to heaven

著者

• McFarlane-Harris, Jennifer
• Hamilton-Honey, Emily

書誌事項

Nineteenth-century American women writers and theologies of the afterlife : a step closer to heaven

edited by Jennifer McFarlane-Harris and Emily Hamilton-Honey

（Routledge research in American literature and culture）

Routledge, 2022

• : hbk

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

Introduction PART 1: (GOD)MOTHERS OF THEOLOGY: HARRIET BEECHER STOWE AND ELIZBETH STUART PHELPS 1. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Christian Scholar? A Touch of Feeling in The Gates Ajar By Brianna Thompson 2. Heaven as a Potential Space: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' Afterlife Novels By James A. Godley 3. Rewriting Heaven: Salvation and the Afterlife in the Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps By Jennine Gleghorn 4. The Archetypal Girl Savior and the Child Theologian: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva and Martha Finley's Elsie Dinsmore By LuElla D'Amico PART 2: SELF-MADE THEOLOGIES: BLACK WOMEN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS 5. "As to the Nature of Uncommon Expressions": Jarena Lee's Supernatural Worldview in The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee By Margaret Lowe 6. Conversion and Counter-memory: Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, and the Spiritual Motherhood of Mary Magdalene By Elisabeth McClanahan Harris 7. "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 Writings By Jennifer McFarlane-Harris PART 3: WOMEN AND UTOPIAN THEOLOGIES 9. Discovering the Soul of the New Republic: The Early Fiction of Catherine Maria Sedgwick By Joan Varnum Ferretti 10. "The Family Order of Heaven": Belinda Marden Pratt's Apology for Polygamy By Zachary McLeod Hutchins 11. Theologies of the Afterlife in Mormon Women's Late-Nineteenth-Century Poetry By Amy Easton-Flake 12. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Brook Farm, and the Heaven of Association By Mark Gallagher

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC0936546X
• ISBN:
  • 9780367528379
• LCCN: 2021001436
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 229 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB28666808