Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Body Language: Religion, Sexuality, and the Bioluminescence of Metaphor
- 2 The Stubborn Density of Desire: Religion and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- 3 A Tradition of Divine Lechery: Men Write about the Ministry
- 4 A War of Words: Women Write about the Ministry. The Homiletic writers
- 5 Comfort to the Enemy: Women Write about the Ministry. The Parsonage Romance
- 6 The Fox in the Well: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Androcentric Imagination
- 7 Fatal Abstractions: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Gynocentric Imagination
- 8 Conclusion: Words Are Not the Thing Itself
- Appendix A The Homiletic Novels and Their Authors
- Appendix B The Parsonage Romances and Their Authors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Appendix A - The Homiletic Novels and Their Authors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Body Language: Religion, Sexuality, and the Bioluminescence of Metaphor
- 2 The Stubborn Density of Desire: Religion and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- 3 A Tradition of Divine Lechery: Men Write about the Ministry
- 4 A War of Words: Women Write about the Ministry. The Homiletic writers
- 5 Comfort to the Enemy: Women Write about the Ministry. The Parsonage Romance
- 6 The Fox in the Well: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Androcentric Imagination
- 7 Fatal Abstractions: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Gynocentric Imagination
- 8 Conclusion: Words Are Not the Thing Itself
- Appendix A The Homiletic Novels and Their Authors
- Appendix B The Parsonage Romances and Their Authors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Summary
Anon. Prairie Missionary (1853). The author wrestles with herself in accepting her call as a minister's wife, but her worst travails are not spiritual, but physical. Life as a frontier missionary is filled with poverty and sickness.
Beecher, Eunice White Bullard (1812–97). From Dawn to Daylight, or The Simple Story of a Western Home by a Minister's Wife (1859). Wife of Henry Ward; her caustic portrayal of their Indiana frontier ministry was banned for many years in Indianapolis.
Brown, Almedia Morton (n.d.). Diary of a Minister's Wife (1881). A minister and his wife visit, and are visited by, congregants and colleagues, which gives the author a chance to catalogue types of ministers. The Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1891) lists five other works by this author.
Bruce, Mrs. E. M. (n.d.). Thousand a Year (1866). Dedicated to ministers and “their patient wives.” A country parson moves to a city parish, but he and his wife are tyrannized by the expectation they will live fashionably on a meager income. The Supplement to Allibone lists two other series of writings by this author.
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- Religion and Sexuality in American Literature , pp. 247 - 249Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992