Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven

Author:   Jennifer McFarlane-Harris ,  Emily Hamilton-Honey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367528379


Pages:   230
Publication Date:   13 July 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jennifer McFarlane-Harris ,  Emily Hamilton-Honey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9780367528379


ISBN 10:   0367528371
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   13 July 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"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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Jennifer McFarlane-Harris is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Seattle Pacific University. Emily Hamilton-Honey is an Associate Professor of English and Humanities and Co-Chief Diversity Officer at SUNY Canton.

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