ISBN:
9780195356342
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (228 pages)
Series Statement:
Religion in America
DDC:
305.683
Keywords:
Mormonen
;
Geschichte 1830-1900
;
Kritik
;
Literatur
;
USA
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.".
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