"The Pernicious Effects of Novel Reading": The Methodist Episcopal campaign against American fiction, 1865-1914

From 1865-1920, Methodists took aim at the "danger" of fiction in American society, believing it to be at the root of social problems affecting American society like urban crime, rising divorce rates, mental illness, and the corruption of the American character. Methodists strove to help r...

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Main Author: Herbst, Matthew T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Creighton University 2007
In: The journal of religion & society
Year: 2007, Volume: 9
Further subjects:B Culture and Christianity; United States
B Methodist Episcopal Church; Controversies
B Moral Education
B Fiction
B American literature
B United States; Moral conditions
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