Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century America

Author	Elizabeth Elkin Grammer
Format	Hardcover
ISBN	9780195139617
Publication Date	23/08/2009
Publisher	USA Oxford University Press
Manufacturer	Oxford University Press

This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. These women used their autobiographies to construct plausible identities as women and Christians in an age that found them hard to understand.

This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct, from an array of materials, plausible identities as women and Christians in an age that found them hard to understand.