The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy (Religion in America)
Terryl Givens
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."
年:
1997
語言:
english
頁數:
232
ISBN 10:
1429415266
ISBN 13:
9781429415262
文件:
PDF, 14.62 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1997