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

by Murphy, Gretchen

• ISBN13: 9780198864950
• ISBN10: 0198864957
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-04-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Gretchen Murphy, Thamen Professor of English, The University of Texas at Austin

Gretchen Murphy is the Arthur J. Thaman and Wilhelmina Dor? Thaman Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire (Duke University Press) and Shadowing the White Man's Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line (New York University Press).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Universalists and Jacobins in Judith Sargent Murray's The Gleaner
2. The Wonder of Rational Christianity: The Illuminati and Sally Sayward Wood
3. Lydia Sigourney in the Land of Steady Habits
4. Suspending Unbelief: The Secular Threats of Catharine Sedgwick's Redwood
5. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Evangelical Story of Disestablishment
Conclusion