Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century AmericaThis 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. |
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... mother , and the capitalistic image of the fantastically productive entrepreneur— they attempt to patch together comprehensible Lives that would somehow be equal to their radically original lives . Literally , psychologically , and ...
... mother , and the capitalistic image of the fantastically productive entrepreneur— they attempt to patch together comprehensible Lives that would somehow be equal to their radically original lives . Literally , psychologically , and ...
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... mothers , were rarely as fortunate in securing money , sitters , and time as I have been . I have been blessed by a host of women who have nurtured my children while I wrote this book . To the instructors at the Sewanee Children's ...
... mothers , were rarely as fortunate in securing money , sitters , and time as I have been . I have been blessed by a host of women who have nurtured my children while I wrote this book . To the instructors at the Sewanee Children's ...
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... mother , thereby " counter [ ing ] the unidimensional public image of herself as a brilliant , argumentative , sharp - witted , un- relenting reformer from a prestigious upper - class family " ( Jelinek , " Paradox " 71 ) . These ...
... mother , thereby " counter [ ing ] the unidimensional public image of herself as a brilliant , argumentative , sharp - witted , un- relenting reformer from a prestigious upper - class family " ( Jelinek , " Paradox " 71 ) . These ...
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... mothers , sisters , and daughters.6 Evan- gelical sects — with their ties to " religious dissent , " and their desires to " preserve the ele- ment of ' protest ' in Protestantism " and to " separate themselves from American culture by ...
... mothers , sisters , and daughters.6 Evan- gelical sects — with their ties to " religious dissent , " and their desires to " preserve the ele- ment of ' protest ' in Protestantism " and to " separate themselves from American culture by ...
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... mother having died when she was twelve , Elaw was hired out as a domes- tic servant to a Quaker family , in whose home she lived and worked until the age of eighteen . Her father died a mere six months after she left her home . During ...
... mother having died when she was twelve , Elaw was hired out as a domes- tic servant to a Quaker family , in whose home she lived and worked until the age of eighteen . Her father died a mere six months after she left her home . During ...
Contents
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Feverish Restlessness and Mighty Movement Female Evangelists in the Marketplace of Salvation | 57 |
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure Singularity and the Uses of Opposition | 83 |
A Poetics of Itinerancy Evangelical Women Writers and the Form of Autobiography | 112 |
The Call of the Preachers the Cry of the Faithful Evangelical Women Writers and the Search for an Interptetive Community | 137 |
Notes | 147 |
Bibliography | 171 |
Index | 195 |
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Page 27 - ... For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Page 83 - For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.
Page 50 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 101 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Page 96 - While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
Page 97 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
Page 50 - But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Page 49 - No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper ; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
Page 128 - I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd's plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life. It is possible, and even quite probable, that but for the mere circumstance of being removed from that plantation to Baltimore, I should have to-day, instead of being here seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom and the happiness of home, writing this Narrative, been confined in the galling chains of slavery.