Item Detail
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9617
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English
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The Popular History of Early Victorian Britain : A Mormon Contribution
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Journal of Mormon History
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1988
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14
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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3-15
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Harrison is emeritus professor of history at the University of Sussex in England. This paper was presented as the annual Tanner Lecture given at the meeting of the Mormon History Association in Oxford, England, on July 6, 1987. Harrison has been interested in exploring the history of the common people of England, and discusses various approaches to this kind of history, especially the autobiographical approach. He shows that the Mormon autobiographies conform closely to the classic pattern of conversion narrative, though in a somewhat attenuated form (little is said, for instance, about the inner spiritual strivings, more about going from sect to sect). The Mormon converts were unanimous that their baptism was the most important thing that had happened to them. Few mentioned external events. In many ways, however, they were very much representative of the other common people.
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