1st Edition
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife A Step Closer to Heaven
Introduction
PART 1: (GOD)MOTHERS OF THEOLOGY:
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE AND ELIZBETH STUART PHELPS
1. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Christian Scholar? A Touch of Feeling in The Gates Ajar
By Brianna Thompson
2. Heaven as a Potential Space: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ Afterlife Novels
By James A. Godley
3. Rewriting Heaven: Salvation and the Afterlife in the Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
By Jennine Gleghorn
4. The Archetypal Girl Savior and the Child Theologian: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Little Eva and Martha Finley’s Elsie Dinsmore
By LuElla D’Amico
PART 2: SELF-MADE THEOLOGIES: BLACK WOMEN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS
5. "As to the Nature of Uncommon Expressions": Jarena Lee’s Supernatural Worldview in The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee
By Margaret Lowe
6. Conversion and Counter-memory: Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, and the Spiritual Motherhood of Mary Magdalene
By Elisabeth McClanahan Harris
7. "What Absurdity Next?": The Precarious Pulpits of Zilpha Elaw, Black Woman Evangelist (1820-65)
By Kimberly Blockett
8. "Aleaving the World, the Flesh, and the Devil": Spiritual Vision and Celibate Holiness in Rebecca Cox Jackson’s Autobiographical Writings
By Jennifer McFarlane-Harris
PART 3: WOMEN AND UTOPIAN THEOLOGIES
9. Discovering the Soul of the New Republic: The Early Fiction of Catherine Maria Sedgwick
By Joan Varnum Ferretti
10. "The Family Order of Heaven": Belinda Marden Pratt’s Apology for Polygamy
By Zachary McLeod Hutchins
11. Theologies of the Afterlife in Mormon Women’s Late-Nineteenth-Century Poetry
By Amy Easton-Flake
12. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Brook Farm, and the Heaven of Association
By Mark Gallagher
Biography
Jennifer McFarlane-Harris is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Seattle Pacific University.
Emily Hamilton-Honey is an Associate Professor of English and Humanities and Co-Chief Diversity Officer at SUNY Canton.
