 | The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion Subjects: Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Sentimentalism in literature; Christianity in literature; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; The Altar at Home explores the many religious contexts and contents of the sentimental literature of the American nineteenth century, arguing that this genre played a dynamic role in the development of revivalism, millennialism, feminism, and other forms of heterodoxy. Claudia Stokes is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. She is the author of Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910 and coeditor of American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader. |
