Skip to content

Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Subtotal: $20.00
Shipping: $3.00
$0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $23.00
2 - 5 days
2 - 8 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • Paypal
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Please select your payment method from the following list:
Click the button to checkout with PayPal.
You will be charged $23.00 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal: $20.00
Shipping: $3.00
: $0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $23.00

You are about to purchase:

Tending the Garden: Essays on Mormon Literature

Tending the Garden: Essays on Mormon Literature by Edited by Eugene England & Lavina Fielding Anderson

2 to 8 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $3.00
Details
$20.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books
Title
Tending the Garden: Essays on Mormon Literature
Author
Edited by Eugene England & Lavina Fielding Anderson
Seller
Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996. First Edition. 219pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. - 'Mormon Storytellers' by Dale L. Morgan - 'On Words and the Word of God: The Delusions of a Mormon Literature' by Karl Keller - 'Mormondom's Lost Generation: The Novelists of the 1940s' by Edward A. Geary - 'Toward a More Perfect Order Within: Being the Confessions of an Unregenerate but not Unrepentant Mistruster of Mormon Literature' by Marden J. Clark - 'To Tell and Hear Stories: Let the Stranger Say' by Bruce W. Jorgensen - 'Just the Fiction Ma'am' by Tory C. Anderson - 'Desirable Fruit: Book of Mormon Imagery' by Richard Dilworth Rust - 'Literary Form and Historical Understanding: Joseph Smith's First Vision' by Neal E. Lambert and Richard H. Cracoft - 'The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt: Some Literary, Historical, and Critical Reflections' by R.A. Christmas - 'The Didactic Heresy as Orthodox Tool: B.H. Roberts as Writer of Home Literature' by Richard H. Cracroft - 'Juanita Brooks: The Mormon Historian as Tragedian' by Levi S. Peterson - 'I, Eye, Aye: A Personal Essay on Personal Essays' by Mary Lythgoe Bradford - 'Beyond Jack Fiction: Recent Achievement in the Mormon Novel' by Eugene England - 'Mormon Folklore: Cut from the Marrow of Everday Experience' by William A. Wilson - 'From Walden Pond to the Great Salt Lake: Ecobiography and Endangered Species Acts in Walden and Refuge' by Cecilia Konchar Farr and Phillip A. Snyder. Part of Signature Books' Essays on Mormonism series, Tending the Garden combines the insights of fifteen different authors on the history and direction of Mormon fiction. This first book-length collection of 15 essays on Mormon literature discusses such classic narratives as Joseph Smith's first vision and Parley P. Pratt's Autobiography, more recent experiments such as Levi Peterson's The Backslider and Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge, and addresses the question of what constitutes Mormon aesthetics. In addition to describing the historical development of Mormon letters, essayists explore Mormon contributions to folklore, personal essay, home literature, novels, and historical tragedy.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.