Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Bradford, Adam C.
Abstract
During the nineteenth century, African American women like Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote wrote narratives of their spiritual conversions. Through their efforts and the efforts of others like them, spiritual autobiographies became not only evangelical tools but also a means of shaping African American culture and American society in general. While some black women were working to claim power for their gender and race by writing spiritual narratives, other women, both black and white, were working with sentimental literature to achieve similar goals.
Extent
77 p.
Recommended Citation
Rovere, Michelle, "Sentimental spirits: saving the soul while seizing the heart and swaying the mind" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 1301.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/1301
Identifier
FA00004463
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.