Piety and Dissent : Race, Gender, and Biblical Rhetoric in Early American Autobiography

University of Massachusetts Press

Piety and Dissent: Race, Gender, and Biblical Rhetoric in Early American Autobiography\nby Eileen Razzari Elrod\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Eileen Razzari Elrod\nTitle: Piety and Dissent: Race, Gender, and Biblical Rhetoric in Early American Autobiography\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Regional / International studies\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press\nPublication year: 2008\nISBN-13: 9781558496293\nISBN-10: 1558496297\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nFor pious converts to Christianity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century New England, all reality was shaped by religious devotion and biblical text. It is therefore not surprising that earnest believers who found themselves marginalized by their race or sex relied on their faith to reconcile the t.