Vardis Fisher : a Mormon novelist / Michael Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Michael, 1966- author.

Series:

Introductions to Mormon thought.

Illinois scholarship online.

Introductions to Mormon thought

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saint authors--20th century--Biography.

Latter Day Saint authors.

Western stories--History and criticism.

Western stories.

Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968--Criticism and interpretation.

Fisher, Vardis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

Summary:

Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently reflected Mormon thought. Beginning in the early 1930s, the public turned to Fisher's novels like 'Children of God' to understand the increasingly visible Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His striking works vaulted him into the same literary tier as William Faulkner while his commercial success opened the New York publishing world to many of the founding figures in the Mormon literary canon. Michael Austin looks at Fisher as the first prominent American author to write sympathetically about the Church and examines his work against the backdrop of Mormon intellectual history.

Contents:

"Vardis Fisher was not a Mormon"

Vardis Fisher and the beginnings of Mormon regionalism

Children of God and the golden age of Mormon literature

The not quite, not Mormon worldview of the Testament of man.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2022).

Also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Austin, Michael Vardis Fisher

ISBN:

9780252053030

0252053036

OCLC:

1251739474