"Extravagant Fictions": The Book of Mormon in the Antebellum Popular Imagination

Ever since rumors of a Golden Bible began circulating in the late 1820s, the Book of Mormon has occupied a singular place in the American popular imagination. It has been revered as scripture by Latter-day Saints and condemned as imposture by anti-Mormons for nearly two centuries, but what of Americ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halverson, Jared Michael
Other Authors: Kathleen Flake
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2012
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-08132012-133201/