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McFarlane, Lisa Watt. "The Mild Apocalypse: Domestic Millennialism in the Novels of Harriet Beecher-Stowe," Michigan State University, August 1987. Advisor: Robert Weisbuch (22, 12, 2)
I analyze Stowe’s transformation of the sentimental narrative conventions of domestic fiction and the prophetic and homiletic genres of Puritan typological literature. Each is simultaneously constricting and liberating for her literary expression and her social ideology; each implies social conformity and at the same time personal liberty. Stowe understands the subtle paradoxes of both her religious inheritance and her domestic expectations; their contradictions result in the dynamism and instability of her agenda for social reform. The paradox of millennial expectations scaled to domestic spaces is what I call the mild apocalypse: Stowe simultaneously challenges subversively and supports powerfully the culture out of which she wrote.
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