Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife : A Step Closer to Heaven (Hardcover)

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