The Man Who Would Be Perfect : John Humphrey Noyes and the Utopian Impulse / Robert David Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Robert David, 1939-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) 978-3-11-044252-6

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

text file PDF

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. A Time of Turmoil: John Humphrey Noyes's Youth and His Religious Conversion

2. On the Road to Damascus: Andover, Yale, and a Perfectionist Ideology

3. Perfectionism, Anxiety, “The New York Experience”

4. Obsessional Behavior: Perfection, Assertions of Leadership, and Disrupted Relationships

5. The Quest for Security: Love, Sex, and Marriage

6. Institutional Order and Disorder: Paternal Authority and the Family

7. Health: A Matter of Life and Death

8. Noyes: The Democratic Theocrat

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)

ISBN:

9781512807592