Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century AmericaOxford University Press, 2002 M12 12 - 224 pages This 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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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 |
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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.