Converted to Usefulness
The Theological Plot of Harriet Newell's Memoir in the Evangelical Textual Community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10089263 |
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| Authors | HANNAH NATION (University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 358-379 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046924000988 |
| OpenAlex | W4405380264 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The 1814 memoir of missionary wife Harriet Newell was important for awakening the early nineteenth-century American Evangelical imagination on behalf of the burgeoning missionary cause. As young women ‘read the self’ and patterned their lives according to the literary examples they encountered, Newell's memoir used the language of ‘usefulness’ as a powerful theological plot. This article hopes to address the lacuna of scholarship regarding the theological aspects of Newell's writing and how it was those aspects in particular which subsequent generations venerated in the creation of missionary wife memoirs
Art · Art history · Literature · Memoir · Plot (graphics · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · Wife · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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