World Religions and the College Girl: Secularism and New Womanhood in Elizabeth W. Champney's Three Vassar Girls Series
This essay explores the intersections of religion, secularism, and feminism in the popular Three Vassar Girls series, written by Elizabeth W. Champney between 1882 and 1892. I argue that these novels illuminate the manner in which secular New Womanhood was configured in the context of the emerging s...
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University of Notre Dame
2022
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Religion & literature
Year: 2022, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 97-120 |
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Champney, Elizabeth W. 1850-1922, Three Vassar girls series
/ World religion (Motif)
/ Female student (motif) (Motif)
/ Spirituality (Motif)
/ Protestantism (Motif)
/ Secularism
/ Feminism
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