Item Detail
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24111
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English
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Parley Pratt's Literary Impulse
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Journal of Mormon History
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Winter 2011
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37
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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164-168
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Parley P. Pratt's sense of his personal role amongst the Mormon literary elite is discussed, focusing on his book "The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt" and his founding of the periodical "Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star." Additionally, Pratt's connections with Romantic literature are explored as well as the emergence of the autobiography as a genre in the late eighteenth century.