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The Viper on the Hearth Terryl L. Givens (Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, University of Richmond)

The Viper on the Hearth By Terryl L. Givens (Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, University of Richmond)

The Viper on the Hearth by Terryl L. Givens (Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, University of Richmond)

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Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in various genres of popular fiction. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people. Applying the methods of literary criticism, Givens shows how the image of the Mormon as a religious and social `Other' was constructed.

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The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy by Terryl L. Givens (Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, University of Richmond)

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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A wonderfully thought-through look at the interrelationships between fiction, religion, and the culture of humor/hostility....It represents a significant contribution to our understanding of literary relations. * Larry H. Peer, Brigham Young University *

About Terryl L. Givens (Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, University of Richmond)

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.

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NPB9780195101836
9780195101836
0195101839
The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy by Terryl L. Givens (Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, University of Richmond)
Terryl L. Givens (Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, Professor of Literature and Religion, Bostwick Professor of English, University of Richmond)
Religion in America
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Oxford University Press Inc
1997-05-08
216
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