Some wild visions : autobiographies by female itinerant evangelists in nineteenth-century America /
A study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of 19th-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct plausible identities as women and Christians.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | A study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of 19th-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct plausible identities as women and Christians. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423762320 9781423762324 0195139615 9780195139617 |