The Viper on the Hearth

Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy

By:

Terryl L Givens

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Hardback

Series:

Religion in America

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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'.

Author Biography:

Terryl L. Givens did graduate work at Cornell University in intellectual history and at UNC Chapel Hill, where he received his PhD in comparative literature. He holds the Jabez A. Bostwick Chair of English and is Professor of Literature and Religion at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century studies and the Bible's influence on Western literature. His writing has been praised by the New York Times as "provocative reading," and his numerous books include When Souls Had Wings, a history of the idea of premortal life in Western thought, as well as The God Who Weeps (with Fiona Givens) and Wrestling the Angel.

Release date NZ

May 8th, 1997

Author

Terryl L Givens

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

halftones

Pages

216

Series

Religion in America

Dimensions

160x242x19

ISBN-13

9780195101836

Product ID

2198193

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