New England Women Writers, Secularity, and the Federalist Politics of Church and State

by Gretchen Murphy

Drawing on literature, correspondence, sermons, legal writing, and newspaper publishing, this book offers a new account women's political participation and the process of religious disestablishment. Scholars have long known that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American women wrote pious, sentimental stories, but this book uses biographical and archival methods to understand their religious concerns as entry points into the era's debates about democratic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198864957
• ISBN13: 9780198864950
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"