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."
| ISBN | 9780195101836 |
| Autor(a) | Givens, Terryl L. |
| Editora | Oxford University Press - USA |
| Ano de edição | 1997 |
| Páginas | 232 |
| Acabamento | Capa Dura |