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The Viper on the Hearth

Mormons, Myths and the Construction of Heresy [Hardback]

by Terryl Givens

Author
Terryl Givens
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
May 1997

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Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people - the 'viper on the hearth' - who sought to violate the domestic sphere of the mainstream. While other critics have mined the socio-political sources of anti-Mormonism, Givens is the first to reveal how popular fiction, in its attempt to deal with the sources and nature of this conflict, constructed an image of the Mormon as a religious and social 'Other'.