Some wild visions : autobiographies by female itinerant evangelists in nineteenth-century America / Elizabeth Elkin Grammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grammer, Elizabeth Elkin, 1963-

Series:

Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)

Religion in America series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women evangelists--United States--Biography--History and criticism.

Women evangelists.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Women evangelists--United States--History--19th century.

Autobiography--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--19th century.

Autobiography--Religious aspects--Christianity.

History.

Biography.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 211 pages : portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-194) and index.

ISBN:

0195139615

OCLC:

49031033