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<p>Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> and <i>Little Women</i>, 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 nondescript and demonstrates that these works were in fact groundbreaking, assertive, and

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Author

Stokes, Claudia

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812290141

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25