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'.
sources and nature of this conflict, constructed an image of the Mormon as a religious and social `Other'.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780195101836
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-19-510183-6
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 08.05.1997
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 1997
- Serie: Religion in America
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Seiten: 232
- Format (B x H x T): 235 x 161 x 23 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt