Front Matter
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction:: Writing Women’s Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America
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“My Resolve Is the Feminine of My Father’s Oath”:: Ritual Agency and Religious Language in the Early National Historical Novel
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“Unsheathe the Sword of a Strong, Unbending Will”:: Sentimental Agency and the Doctrinal Work of Woman’s Fiction
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“I Have Sinned against God and Myself”:: Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women’s Agency in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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“The Human Soul … Makes All Things Sacred”:: Communal Agency in the Theological Romances of Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“I Have No Disbelief”:: Women’s Spiritualist Novels and Nonliberal Agencies
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Conclusion:: Women’s Religious Agency Today
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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