In “Reading Minds” I argue that the emergence and legacy of evangelical fiction was shaped by evangelicalism’s sacralization of the reading act, and transferred anxieties about the effects of reading from the mind to the body. I also argue that the emergence of a distinct evangelical brand of fiction meant that even popular, respected writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe were forced to choose between evangelical and highbrow literary pursuits. Further, I argue that evangelical fiction was born in a time when evangelical periodicals had a dominant influence on the evangelical mind. These arguments rest on my foundational claim that the legacy of anti-intellectualism within evangelicalism is partly due to the way evangelicals relate to the fict...
The Sunday School Book genre has changed and developed throughout the centuries. In times when child...
Theories of Reading from Nineteenth-Century American Fiction proceeds from the claim that when we re...
This is a study of some literary aspects of English thinking during the eighty years from Elizabeth'...
2014-07-24Scholars have long agreed that Evangelical Christianity was a powerful shaper of religious...
Examines evangelical encounters with the arts as: consumer and performer in the ‘neutral’ sphere of ...
My dissertation describes how religious ideas shaped aesthetic innovation in popular American litera...
Between 1979 and 1994, conservative, Protestant Christian fiction, or simply "evangelical fiction," ...
Fictions of Belief tells the story of evangelical identity by telling the story of five, bestselling...
Reading Methodist Characters examines the imaginative appropriation of Methodist and anti-Methodist ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe\u27s The Minister\u27s Wooing (1859), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps\u27s The Gates A...
Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novel...
By the nature of their movement, evangelicals intended to interact with secular society in contrast ...
A Christmas Carol is a novel by Charles Dickens full of social criticism and is framed in the story ...
This dissertation argues that disenfranchised authors of the antebellum and early postbellum periods...
Religious institutions played an influential role in the development of nineteenth-century American ...
The Sunday School Book genre has changed and developed throughout the centuries. In times when child...
Theories of Reading from Nineteenth-Century American Fiction proceeds from the claim that when we re...
This is a study of some literary aspects of English thinking during the eighty years from Elizabeth'...
2014-07-24Scholars have long agreed that Evangelical Christianity was a powerful shaper of religious...
Examines evangelical encounters with the arts as: consumer and performer in the ‘neutral’ sphere of ...
My dissertation describes how religious ideas shaped aesthetic innovation in popular American litera...
Between 1979 and 1994, conservative, Protestant Christian fiction, or simply "evangelical fiction," ...
Fictions of Belief tells the story of evangelical identity by telling the story of five, bestselling...
Reading Methodist Characters examines the imaginative appropriation of Methodist and anti-Methodist ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe\u27s The Minister\u27s Wooing (1859), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps\u27s The Gates A...
Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novel...
By the nature of their movement, evangelicals intended to interact with secular society in contrast ...
A Christmas Carol is a novel by Charles Dickens full of social criticism and is framed in the story ...
This dissertation argues that disenfranchised authors of the antebellum and early postbellum periods...
Religious institutions played an influential role in the development of nineteenth-century American ...
The Sunday School Book genre has changed and developed throughout the centuries. In times when child...
Theories of Reading from Nineteenth-Century American Fiction proceeds from the claim that when we re...
This is a study of some literary aspects of English thinking during the eighty years from Elizabeth'...