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Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy

by Givens, Terryl

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Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people--the "viper on the hearth"--who sought to violate the domestic sphere of the mainstream. While other critics have mined the socio-political sources of anti-Mormonism, Givens is the first to reveal how popular fiction, in its attempt to deal with the sources and nature of this conflict, constructed an image of the Mormon as a religious and social "Other."

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  • Jan 30, 1997 Pub Date:
  • 0195101839 ISBN-10:
  • 9780195101836 ISBN-13:
  • English Language