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The Viper on the Hearth Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
ISBN: 9780195101836 | 0195101839
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/30/1997
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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... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Mormonism, Politics, and History | p. 11 |
| Out of the Sphere of Religion | p. 13 |
| This Upstart Sect | p. 25 |
| Manners, Habits, Customs, and Even Dialect | p. 40 |
| An Age of Humbugs | p. 60 |
| This Great Modern Abomination | p. 76 |
| Mormonism and Fiction | p. 95 |
| Ground in the Presbyterian Smut M... MORE | p. 97 |
| They Ain't Whites . . . They'Re Mormons | p. 121 |
| Murder and Mystery-- Mormon Style | p. 153 |
| Notes | p. 168 |
| Index | p. 197 |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Terry L. Givens is Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond.
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