The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy.

By: Givens, TerrylMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Religion in America SerPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (228 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780195356342Subject(s): American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Controversial literature -- History and criticism | Mormon Church -- Controversial literature -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of HeresyDDC classification: 813.009382 LOC classification: BX8645.5.G58 1997Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Mormonism, Politics, and History -- 1 "Out of the Sphere of Religion": The Sacred, the Profane, and the Mormons -- 2 "This Upstart Sect": The Mormon Problem in American History -- 3 "Manners, Habits, Customs, and Even Dialect": Sources of the Mormon Conflict -- 4 "An Age of Humbugs": The Contemporary Scene -- 5 "This Great Modern Abomination": Orthodoxy and Heresy in American Religion -- Part II: Mormonism and Fiction -- 6 "Ground in the Presbyterian Smut Machine": The Popular Press, Fiction, and Moral Crusading -- 7 "They Ain't Whites . . . They're Mormons": Fictive Responses to the Anxiety of Seduction -- 8 "Murder and Mystery-Mormon Style": The Mormon Image in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Photographs.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Mormonism, Politics, and History -- 1 "Out of the Sphere of Religion": The Sacred, the Profane, and the Mormons -- 2 "This Upstart Sect": The Mormon Problem in American History -- 3 "Manners, Habits, Customs, and Even Dialect": Sources of the Mormon Conflict -- 4 "An Age of Humbugs": The Contemporary Scene -- 5 "This Great Modern Abomination": Orthodoxy and Heresy in American Religion -- Part II: Mormonism and Fiction -- 6 "Ground in the Presbyterian Smut Machine": The Popular Press, Fiction, and Moral Crusading -- 7 "They Ain't Whites . . . They're Mormons": Fictive Responses to the Anxiety of Seduction -- 8 "Murder and Mystery-Mormon Style": The Mormon Image in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Photographs.

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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