Reconfiguring Religion, Race, and the Female Body Politic in American Fiction by Women, 1859-1911

This dissertation demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American women writers employ Christian discourse in order to affirm, contest, or even expand--sometimes concurrently--conceptualizations of power, race, and gender. Furthermore, this project argues that femini...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tanglen, Randi Lynn
Other Authors: Kolodny, Annette
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194933