Claudia Stokes: 2 books
The Altar at Home
Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental literature,...
Writers in Retrospect
The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary history was touted as the balm for numerous "ills--from burgeoning immigration to American anti-intellectualism...