Episodio 89: El antimormonismo en la literatura del siglo 19
El antimormonismo en la literatura de ficción del siglo 19
Historia del antimormonismo en los Estados Unidos.
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Lista de novelas antimormonas (no incluye libros de no ficción y libros de viaje) ordenadas por año. Muchos de estos libros pueden encontrarse en Google Books y Archive.org. (Lista de Leonard Arrington y Jon Haupt.)
36. Tourgee, Albion Winegar. Button's Inn (Boston, 1887).
Historia del antimormonismo en los Estados Unidos.
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Ilustracion de Boadicea, The Mormon Wife Nótese las vestimentas arabescas de los personajes mormones, así como la media luna en el fondo |
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Artículo de un diario de 1954 en el que se compara a José Smith con el profeta Mahoma.
“Mencionando
un autentico retrato de José Smith—el Mahoma—el Review comenta: ‘Nunca vimos
una cara en la que la mano del Cielo haya escrito de manera más legible bandido’.
La cara era un índice fiel del carácter”.
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Lista de novelas antimormonas (no incluye libros de no ficción y libros de viaje) ordenadas por año. Muchos de estos libros pueden encontrarse en Google Books y Archive.org. (Lista de Leonard Arrington y Jon Haupt.)
1. Schoppe, Amalie. Der
Prophet: Historischer Roman aus der Neuzeit Nord-Amerikas (3 vols., Jena,
Alemania, 1846).
2. Marryat, Frederick. Monsieur
Violet: His Travels and Adventures Among the Snake Indians and Wild
Tribes of the Great Western Prairies (Leipzig, 1843; London, 1849).
3. Russell, John. The
Mormoness; or, The Trials of Mary Maverick (Alton, Illinois, 1853).
4. Richards, Robert. The
Californian Crusoe; or, The Lost Treasure Found: A Tale of Mormonism
(London and New York, 1854).
5. Bell, Alfreda Eva. Boadicea,
The Mormon Wife: Life-Scenes in Utah. (Baltimore, 1855).
6. Orvilla S. Belisle. The Prophets; or, Mormonism Unveiled (Philadelphia, 1855)
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Ilustración del libro The Prophets, or Mormonism Unvailed, de Belisle. El subtítulo de la imagen dice "Monroe en su prisión--Brigham Young haciendo propuestas insultantes" |
7. Ward, Maria. Female Life Among thte Mormons: A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience. By the Wife of a Mormon Elder Recently from Utah (New York, 1855).
8. Conybeare, Vlilliam John. Perversion; or, the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity: A Tale for
the Times (3 vols, London, 1856; New York, 1856).
9. Ward, Maria. The Husband in Utah (New York, 1857).
10. Fuller, Metta Victoria. Mormon
Wives: A Narrative of Facts Stranger than Fiction (New York, 1856, 1858).
11. Duplessis, Paul. Les Mormons (Paris, 1858).
12. St. John, Percy Bolingbroke. Jessie, The Mormon's Daughter: A Tale of English and American Life (3 vols., London, 1861).
13. Reid, Captain Mayne. The Wild Huntress (3 vols., London, 1861; New York, 1861).
14. Winthrop, Theodore. John Brent (New York, 1861).
15. Aiken, Albert W. Eagle Plume, The White Avenger: A Tale of the Mormon Trail (New York, 1870).
16. Saved from the Mormons (New York, 1872).
17. Mitchell, Langdon E. Two Mormons from Muddlety: Love in the Backwoods (New York, 1876).
18. Aiken, Albert W. Gold Dan; or, The White Savage of the Great Salt Lake: A Terrible Tale of the Danites of Mormon Land (New York, 1878).
19. Walsh, Marie A. My Queen: A Romance of the Great Salt Lake. (New York, 1878).
20. Clark, Charles Heber. The Tragedy of Thompson Dunbar: A Tale of Salt Lake City (Philadelphia, 1879).
21. Paddock, [Cornelia], Mrs. A. G. In the Toils; or, Martyrs of the Latter Days (Chicago, 1879).
22. lark, Charles Heber. The Tragedy of Thompson Dunbar: A Tale of Salt Lake City. (Boston, 1876; Chicago, 1880).
23. Stephens, Mrs. Ann S. Esther: A Story of the Oregon Trail (London, ca. 1880).
24. Paddock, [Cornelia], Mrs. A. G. The Fate of Madame La Tour: A Tale of Great Salt Lake (New York, 1881).
25. Paddock, [Cornelia], Mrs. A. G. Saved at Last from Among the Mormons (Springfield, Ill., 1881).
26. Bartlett, A. Jennie. Elder Northfield's Home; or Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar: A Story of the Blighting Curse of Polygamy (New York, 1882).
27. Gilchrist, Mrs. Rosetta Luce. Apples of Sodom : A Story of Mormon Life (Cleveland, 1883).
28. Ingraham, Prentiss. The
Texan's Double; or, the Merciless Shadower. (New York, 1884).
29. Ingraham, Prentiss. War
Path Will, the Traitor Guide (New York, 1884).
30. Aiken, Albert W. Old Lynx, the Mormon Detective; or, Saved from a Terrible Fate (New York, 1884).
31. Spencer, William Loring. Salt Lake Fruit: A Latter-day Romance, by an American (Boston, 1884).
32. Lewis, Leon. The Sons of Thunder; or, the Rivals of Ruby Valley ... (New York, 1884).
33. Wheeler, Edward L. Bullion Bret; or, The Giant Grip of Gitthar; A Tale of Silverland (New York, 1884).
34. Aiken, Albert W. Iron Dagger: or, The High Horse in Silver Land: A Tale of Strange Adventures in the Mogollon Country (New York, 1885).
35. Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet (Primera novela de Sherlock Holmes) (London, 1887; Philadelphia, 1890).
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Sherlock Holmes investiga un asesinato cometido por un danita mormón en Study in Scarlet |
37. Hudson, Mary Worrell (Smith). Esther, the Gentile (Topeka, 1888).
38. Kerr, Alvah Milton. Trean,
or, The Mormon's Daughter: A Romantic Story of Life Among the
Latter-Day Saints. (Chicago, 1889).
39. Mathews, Amelia Veronique. Plural Marriage: The Heart-History of Adele Hersch, by Veronique Petit (2nd edition. Ithaca, New York, 1885).
40. MacKnight, James Arthur. Hagar: A Tale of Mormon Life (New York and Chicago, 1889).
41. Ewing, General Hugh. The Black List: A Tale of Early California (New York, 1893).
42. Trout, Grace. A Mormon Wife (Chicago, 1895).
43. Todd, Mrs. Mary Van Lennup. Deborah, The Advanced Woman. (Boston, 1896).
44. Newberry, Fannie E. A Son's Victory: A Story of the Land of the Honey Bee (Philadelphia, 1897).
45. Aiken, Albert W. Gold Dan, or Talbot in Utah (New York, 1898).
46. Gash, Abram Dale. The
False Star: A Tale of the Occident. (Chicago, 1899).
47. Dougall, Lily. The Mormon Prophet (New York, 1899; London, 1899).
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