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Subject(s)

• Women evangelists—United States—Biography—History and criticism [Browse]
• Autobiography—Women authors [Browse]
• Women evangelists—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Autobiography—Religious aspects—Christianity—History—19th century [Browse]
• Women and literature—United States—History—19th century [Browse]

Series

• Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Religion in America series

Summary note

A study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of 19th-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct plausible identities as women and Christians.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-194) and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Contents; INTRODUCTION: Stirring and Strange: Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century Female Itinerant Preachers; 1 Breaking Up Housekeeping: Female Evangelists and Domestic Ideology; 2 Feverish Restlessness and Mighty Movement: Female Evangelists in the Marketplace of Salvation; 3 Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: Singularity and the Uses of Opposition; 4 A Poetics of Itinerancy: Evangelical Women Writers and the Form of Autobiography; AFTERWORD: The Call of the Preachers, the Cry of the Faithful: Evangelical Women Writers and the Search for an Interpretive Community; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• AB; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

ISBN

• 0-19-028610-5
• 1-4237-6232-0
• 1-280-48127-7
• 9786610481279
• 0-19-803195-5

OCLC

191827341

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