The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy Hardback
by Terryl L. (Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, Professor of Givens
Part of the Religion in America series
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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'.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:08/05/1997
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- ISBN:9780195101836
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:08/05/1997
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- ISBN:9780195101836
