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Vardis Fisher : a Mormon novelist

Austin, Michael 1966- (author.).

Summary: "Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently reflected Mormon thought. Beginning in the early 1930s, the public turned to Fisher's novels like Children of God to understand the increasingly visible Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His striking works vaulted him into the same literary tier as William Faulkner while his commercial success opened the New York publishing world to many of the founding figures in the Mormon literary canon. Michael Austin looks at Fisher as the first prominent American author to write sympathetically about the Church and examines his work against the backdrop of Mormon intellectual history. Engrossing and enlightening, Vardis Fisher illuminates the acclaimed author's impact on Mormon culture, American letters, and the literary tradition of the American West"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780252086144
ISBN: 9780252044090
ISBN: 9780252053030
ISBN: 0252053036
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 112 pages)
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:november.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	"Vardis Fisher was not a Mormon" -- Vardis Fisher and the beginnings of Mormon regionalism -- Children of God and the golden age of Mormon literature -- The not quite, not Mormon worldview of the Testament of man.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 24, 2021).