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As the sacred text of a modern religious movement of global reach, The Book of Mormon has undeniable historical significance. That significance, this volume shows, is inextricable from the intricacy of its literary form and the audacity of its historical vision. This landmark collection brings together a diverse range of scholars in American literary studies and related fields to definitively establish The Book of Mormon as an indispensable object of Americanist inquiry not least because it is, among other things, a form of Americanist inquiry in its own right--a creative, critical reading of "America." Drawing on formalist criticism, literary and cultural theory, book history, religious studies, and even anthropological field work, Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon captures as never before the full dimensions and resonances of this "American Bible."
Contents
Part One: Plates and Print
1: R. John Williams: The Ghost and the Machine: Plates and Paratext in The Book of Mormon
2: Jillian Sayre: Books Buried in the Earth: The Book of Mormon, Revelation, and the Humic Foundations of the Nation
3: Paul Gutjahr: Orson Pratt's Enduring Influence on The Book of Mormon
Part Two: Scripture and Secularity
4: Grant Hardy: The Book of Mormon and the Bible
5: Eran Shalev: An American Book of Chronicles: Pseudo-Biblicism and the Cultural Origins of The Book of Mormon
6: Samuel Brown: "To Read the Round of Eternity": Speech, Text, and Scripture in The Book of Mormon
7: Laura Thiemann Scales: "The writing of the fruit of thy loins": Reading, Writing, and Prophecy in The Book of Mormon
8: Grant Shreve: Nephite Secularization; or, Picking and Choosing in The Book of Mormon
Part Three: Indigeneity and Imperialism
9: Nancy Bentley: Kinship, The Book of Mormon, and Modern Revelation
10: Peter Coviello: How the Mormons Became White: Scripture, Sex, Sovereignty
11: Elizabeth Fenton: Nephites and Israelites: The Book of Mormon and the Hebraic Indian Theory
12: Kimberly Berkey and Joseph Spencer: "Great Cause to Mourn": The Complexity of The Book of Mormon's Presentation of Gender and Race
13: Stanley J. Thayne: "We're going to take our land back over": Reading The Book of Mormon from an Indigenous Space
Part Four: Genre and Generation
14: Terryl Givens: The Book of Mormon and the Reshaping of Covenant
15: Amy Easton-Flake: "Arise from the Dust, My Sons, and Be Men": Masculinity in The Book of Mormon
16: Zachary McLeod Hutchins: "I Lead the Way, like Columbus": Joseph Smith, Genocide, and Revelatory Ambiguity
17: Edward Whitley: Book of Mormon Poetry
