Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Body Language: Religion, Sexuality, and the Bioluminescence of Metaphor
- 2 The Stubborn Density of Desire: Religion and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- 3 A Tradition of Divine Lechery: Men Write about the Ministry
- 4 A War of Words: Women Write about the Ministry. The Homiletic writers
- 5 Comfort to the Enemy: Women Write about the Ministry. The Parsonage Romance
- 6 The Fox in the Well: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Androcentric Imagination
- 7 Fatal Abstractions: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Gynocentric Imagination
- 8 Conclusion: Words Are Not the Thing Itself
- Appendix A The Homiletic Novels and Their Authors
- Appendix B The Parsonage Romances and Their Authors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Appendix B - The Parsonage Romances and Their Authors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Body Language: Religion, Sexuality, and the Bioluminescence of Metaphor
- 2 The Stubborn Density of Desire: Religion and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- 3 A Tradition of Divine Lechery: Men Write about the Ministry
- 4 A War of Words: Women Write about the Ministry. The Homiletic writers
- 5 Comfort to the Enemy: Women Write about the Ministry. The Parsonage Romance
- 6 The Fox in the Well: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Androcentric Imagination
- 7 Fatal Abstractions: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Gynocentric Imagination
- 8 Conclusion: Words Are Not the Thing Itself
- Appendix A The Homiletic Novels and Their Authors
- Appendix B The Parsonage Romances and Their Authors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Summary
Abbott, Jane Ludlow Drake (1888–1962). Yours for the Asking (1943). In a mountain ministry in Black Creek, Kentucky, marital problems develop between the stuffy minister and his kind, high-spirited wife. Jane Abbott was the author of more than twenty novels.
Austin, Jane G. (1831–94). The Desmond Hundred (1891). A Christ-like minister cannot marry because it would interfere with his love for God.
Bailey, Temple (1869–1953). Enchanted Ground (1933). The minister is not as important a character in this novel as the lovable Lucifer figure, Boone Musgrave, who redeems himself at the end by demonstrating that “a son's place is with his mother” (334). Irene Temple Bailey was, according to her biography in American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to Present (1979–82), “amazingly popular” and “one of the highest paid writers in the world” (93).
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- Religion and Sexuality in American Literature , pp. 250 - 252Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992