Altar at Home
Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom''s Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental literature, Claudia Stokes counters the long-standing characterization of sentimental piety as blandly nonde...
Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom''s Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental literature, Claudia Stokes counters the long-standing characterization of sentimental piety as blandly nonde...
