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

    The Viper on the Hearth by Givens, Terryl;

    Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy

    Series: Religion in America;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 8 May 1997

    • ISBN 9780195101836
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages232 pages
    • Size 235x161x23 mm
    • Weight 476 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations halftones
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    Short description:

    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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    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'.

    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.

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