By Terryl L. Givens
Released in 1997, Terryl Givens's The Viper at the Hearth was once commonly praised as a landmark work--indeed, The Wall road Journal hailed it as "one of the 5 most sensible books on Mormonism." Now, within the wake of a tidal wave of Mormon-inspired creative, literary, and political activity--ranging from the Broadway hit The e-book of Mormon, to the HBO sequence Big Love, to the political crusade of Mitt Romney--Givens provides an up to date variation that addresses the continued presence and reception of the Mormon photograph in modern tradition.
The Viper at the Hearth confirmed how 19th- and twentieth-century American writers usually solid the Mormon as a inventory villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and well known romances. If at the present time a few authors like Tom Clancy use "Mormon" as shorthand for "clean minimize and patriotic," prior writers extra frequently depicted the Mormons as a violent and perverse people--the "viper at the hearth"--who sought to violate the household sphere of the mainstream. Givens is the 1st to bare how well known fiction built a picture of the Mormon as a spiritual and social different. The checklist of authors contains either American and English writers, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes secret to Zane Grey's Riders of the pink Sage, from Robert Louis Stevenson's The Dynamiter to Jack London's Star Rover.
For this variation, Givens has accelerated the ultimate bankruptcy, laying off extra mild at the Mormon presence in modern American tradition, with insightful discussions of subject matters starting from the musical, The e-book of Mormon, to the political campaigns of Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman.
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Against this foul horde which would soon put an end to their sway” and pledging to return as their governor. 53 In the meantime, a new governor had already been dispatched to replace Brigham Young, and a new stage of the Mormon conflict began. Young had already addressed such a possibility: “Though I may not be Governor here my power will not be diminished. ”54 On July 24, 1857, the Saints were celebrating their annual Pioneer Day, commemorating the arrival of the first Mormons in the valley, when “two men came in from the States with the express and brought word that an army was on the way to Utah for the purpose of fighting the Mormons.
46 Hearing that the federal government meant to disarm them first, and facing continuing harassment, the Mormons began a wintry departure instead. ) Signal reported that “one thousand or twelve hundred had already crossed the river, amongst whom were the twelve, the High Council and all the principal men of the Church and about one hundred females. 48 The exiles wintered at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Winter Quarters, Nebraska. In the spring of 1847, Brigham Young led the first party of pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley, arriving in July.
Young had already addressed such a possibility: “Though I may not be Governor here my power will not be diminished. ”54 On July 24, 1857, the Saints were celebrating their annual Pioneer Day, commemorating the arrival of the first Mormons in the valley, when “two men came in from the States with the express and brought word that an army was on the way to Utah for the purpose of fighting the Mormons. . It came upon them like a clap of thunder in a clear sky. ”55 President Buchanan had sent an army of twenty-five hundred under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston to bring the rebellious Mormons to terms.
