"While We Must Suffer, We Must Not Rebel:" The Calvinist Framework of Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World
According to Barbara Welter, religion or piety was at the heart of a “true” woman’s cardinal attributes. This “peculiar susceptibility” to religion, reportedly bestowed upon women by God Himself, blessed them with an intrinsic virtuosity and, in so doing, appointed them as the bastions of morality w...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Iperstoria |
| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/386 |