New England Women Writers, Secularity, and the Federalist Politics of Church and State
Author | : Gretchen Murphy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2021 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780198864950 |
ISBN-13 | : 0198864957 |
Rating | : 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Download or read book New England Women Writers, Secularity, and the Federalist Politics of Church and State written by Gretchen Murphy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long known that early American women wrote pious, sentimental stories. This book uses biographical and archival sources to understand how their religious concerns fed into debates about democracy and belief in a republic, and offers a new account of their political participation and the process of religious disestablishment.