.... This chapter examines the manner in which race and sexual identity intersect in Stuck Rubber Baby by framing the book through the conventions of the white-authored “coming-out novel” and the “white southern racial conversion narrative.” It discusses not only the coming-out novel’s general...

... of Augustine’s Confessions serving as Elizabeth’s primary literary model when producing an account of her life. Essentially a hybrid form of life-writing, the spiritual autobiography pre-dated the emergence of the genre of the seventeenth-century conversion narrative, and it allows us...

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... of the sovereign woman physician. Because readers were strongly affected by the presence of a romance narrative, Phelps and Gilman package their oppositional politics in defense of gender equality and the autonomous woman physician in the form a conversion narrative. They deploy the New Man as a transformative...

...Chapter 2 considers how José Rizal revised the conversion narrative into one of guerrilla conversion which operates on a model of revolutionary education. Building on scholarship that examines the Philippines within a Latin American context, Hudson reads Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere...

..., be all Praise, Thanks, Glory, & Honour ascribed from all in Earth, & in Heaven, especially from my Soul, & Body for now, & ever, world without end; The manuscript writings of Lady Mary Carey (c.1609–c.1680), consisting of a conversion narrative, some...

...This chapter comprises an introduction to the conversion narrative and prophecies of Katherine Sutton, selected reading, and extracts from her only published work, A Christian Womans Experiences of the Glorious Working of Gods Free Grace (1663). Sutton was a Particular Baptist...

... context after the migration to the Massachusetts Bay colony. It argues that the rhetorical pattern associated with the conversion narratives collected by Shepard is a communal response to the crisis in belief caused by the migration to New England and the disappointment the saints felt when New England...

...Chapter 6 tracks a shift in the morphology of conversion, as colonists replaced metaphors of spiritual pilgrimage with the language of new birth. This transition, manifest in conversion narratives recorded by Thomas Shepard, Marth Gerrish, and the Quaker Elizabeth Webb, was enabled by the Halfway...

... and quotation, use of similar values in the evaluation of stories, critique of and rejection of prior texts. The chapter shows the relation of this kind of narrative intertextuality within an institution to conversion narratives. This chapter argues that an individuals' story is not only personal, but is shaped...

... of continual spiritual refinement. In her collection of poetry, published in Sin and Mercy Briefly Discovered, Major uses ‘Soul’ to voice her own beliefs. In a similar way to Mary Carey's writings, which also use the dialogue as a rhetorical device, Major's conversion narrative was certainly...

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..., and hence he was using the conversion narrative as a kind of published sermon. Later revisions reduced or erased traces of his earlier religious radicalism, and demonstrated his growing competence as minister and writer, but sometimes compromised authentically remembered spontaneous experience. Anglicanism...

... Walter Anglican Evangelical Joseph Milner Thomas Scott apocalyptic conversion narrative Tractarian vital religion ‘The most fundamental religious experience of Newman’s life was his adolescent conversion to evangelical religion. His reception into the Roman Catholic Church almost thirty...

...This chapter examines the multifaceted discourse about the apostasy of Christianity in early Mormon sermons and conversion narratives. It categorizes two prevailing attitudes in this discourse—an exclusive perspective that rejected other religious traditions as inadequate and an inclusive...

...) and the evangelical conversion narrative (again, in this case, what he was being converted to was not a conventional religious faith, but rather Romanticism). This chapter also traces Mill’s strong connections with Unitarian Christianity, not least through his relationship with the Reverend William Johnson Fox. His...

... Ireland’s conversion narrative, Roberts shows how poetics and sociability could work in the opposite direction of Erskine, Moorhead, Davies, and Wheatley to help construct a muscularized and white evangelical masculinity among male poet-ministers. The chapter also shows how Ireland’s narrative reveals...

... of international guests, the awareness of prayers being said around the world for those in attendance, and the translation and accessibility of conversation narratives—enhanced the feeling in audiences that they were part of the transnational community of Billy Graham’s followers. Barrows Cliff Madison Square...