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OverviewThis book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct, from an array of materials, plausible identities as women and Christians in an age that found them hard to understand. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth Elkin Grammer (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of the South)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9780195139617ISBN 10: 0195139615 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 16 January 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsSome Wild Visions pays great tribute to intrepid women, itinerant female evangelists whose lives and letters embodied the transformative nature of faith. --Legacy Grammer goes well beyond giving these women a voice; she dignifies their efforts by attending carefully to the tenor, tone, and themes of their autobiographies and discovering the ways they made sense of their deeply religous lives using contemporary cultural paradigms. --The Journal ofReligion The strength of this book ... is Grammer's ability to contextualize her authors as historical actors and to ground her observations in the realities that emerge when race, gender, and religion intersect. Because she does so, her work adds a fresh dimension to the on-going discussion of domesticity and highlights how women's spiritual authority and women's marginality clashed in nineteenth-century evangelical America. -- American Historical Review Some Wild Visions pays great tribute to intrepid women, itinerant female evangelists whose lives and letters embodied the transformative nature of faith. --Legacy<br> Grammer goes well beyond giving these women a voice; she dignifies their efforts by attending carefully to the tenor, tone, and themes of their autobiographies and discovering the ways they made sense of their deeply religous lives using contemporary cultural paradigms. --The Journal of Religion<br> The strength of this book ... is Grammer's ability to contextualize her authors as historical actors and to ground her observations in the realities that emerge when race, gender, and religion intersect. Because she does so, her work adds a fresh dimension to the on-going discussion of domesticity and highlights how women's spiritual authority and women's marginality clashed in nineteenth-century evangelical America. -- American Historical Review<br> Some Wild Visions pays great tribute to intrepid women, itinerant female evangelists whose lives and letters embodied the transformative nature of faith. * Legacy * Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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