The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy.
Title:
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy.
Author:
Givens, Terryl.
ISBN:
9780195356342
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Series:
Religion in America
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Mormonism, Politics, and History -- 1 "Out of the Sphere of Religion": The Sacred, the Profane, and the Mormons -- 2 "This Upstart Sect": The Mormon Problem in American History -- 3 "Manners, Habits, Customs, and Even Dialect": Sources of the Mormon Conflict -- 4 "An Age of Humbugs": The Contemporary Scene -- 5 "This Great Modern Abomination": Orthodoxy and Heresy in American Religion -- Part II: Mormonism and Fiction -- 6 "Ground in the Presbyterian Smut Machine": The Popular Press, Fiction, and Moral Crusading -- 7 "They Ain't Whites . . . They're Mormons": Fictive Responses to the Anxiety of Seduction -- 8 "Murder and Mystery-Mormon Style": The Mormon Image in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Photographs.
Abstract:
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.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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