Item Detail
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27017
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2
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10
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English
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The Novelist and the Apostle : Paul Bailey, John A. Widtsoe, and the Quest for Faithful Fiction in the 1940s
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Journal of Mormon History
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July 2016
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42
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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183-210
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The 1940s have long been seen as a golden age for serious novels by and about Mormons. Before this time, most Mormon-themed fiction fell into two nonoverlapping categories: they were either sentimental stories written by devout Mormons for consumption by the faithful, or they were sensationalistic narratives based on nineteenth-century formulas involving polygamy, Danites, blood atonement, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre. But in the years following the publication of Vardis Fisher's Children of God in 1939, novels with Mormon characters flowed out of the great Eastern publishing houses at a rate of three to four a year - many of them written by members (albeit not always practicing) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was during this time that "Mormon literature" became a distinct form of regional literature in the United States. [From the text]
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