Mormon Literature Database - Tending the Garden

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Tending the Garden
Essays on Mormon Literature
Edited by Eugene England, Lavina Fielding Anderson
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1996 (219p.)


Genre:		Criticism Collection

Subjects: American literature--Mormon authors--History and criticism; Mormons--United States--Intellectual life.;

Summary:
Contributors to this collection are insiders with specialty interests. They discuss the phenomenon and trends in Mormon literature beginning with Parley P. Pratt's autobiography to the more recent works of Levi Peterson and Terry Tempest Williams. They address Mormon aesthetics, summarize the historical development of LDS writing, and explore contributions by specific authors.

HBLL Call No: BX 8688 .T324x

This publication includes:
One View of the Garden by Eugene England Pages: xiii-xxxv	Criticism
Mormon Storytellers by Dale L. Morgan Pages: 3-12	Criticism
On Words and the Word of God: The Delusions of a Mormon Literature by Karl Keller Pages: 13-22	Criticism
Mormondom's Lost Generation: The Novelists of the 1940s by Edward A. Geary Pages: 23-33	Criticism
Toward a More Perfect Order Within: Being the Confessions of an Unregenerate But Not Unrepentant Mistruster of Mormon Literature by Marden J. Clark Pages: 35-48	Criticism
To Tell and Hear Stories: Let the Stranger Say by Bruce W. Jorgensen Pages: 49-68	Criticism
Just the Fiction, Ma'am by Tory C. Anderson Pages: 69-77	Criticism
Desirable Fruit: Book of Mormon Imagery by Richard Dilworth Rust Pages: 81-88	Criticism
Literary Form and Historical Understanding: Joseph Smith's First Vision by Neal E. Lambert, Richard H. Cracroft Pages: 89-104	Criticism
The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt: Some Literary, Historical, and Critical Reflections by R. A. Christmas Pages: 105-16	Criticism
The Didactic Heresy as Orthodox Tool: B.H. Roberts as Writer of Home Literature by Richard H. Cracroft Pages: 117-33	Criticism
Juanita Brooks: The Mormon Historian as Tragedian by Levi S. Peterson Pages: 135-45	Biography / Memoir
I, Eye, Aye: A Personal Essay on Personal Essays by Mary Lythgoe Bradford Pages: 147-59	Personal Essay
Beyond "Jack Fiction": Recent Achievement in the Mormon Novel by Eugene England Pages: 161-77	Criticism
Mormon Folklore: Cut From the Marrow of Everyday Experience by William A. Wilson Pages: 179-96	Criticism
From Walden Pond to the Great Salt Lake: Ecobiography and Engendered Species Acts in Walden and Refuge by Cecilia Konchar Farr, Phillip A. Snyder Pages: 197-211	Criticism

Reviewed In:
[Review of] Tending the Garden: Essays on Mormon Literature by R. W. Rasband
[Review of] Tending the Garden: Essays on Mormon Literature by Eric Eliason