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Elder Northfield’s Home; or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar by A. Jennie Bartlett (review)

Elder Northfield’s Home; or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar by A. Jennie Bartlett (review) Elder Northfield's Home; or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar. By A. Jennie Bartlett. Edited by Nicole Tonkovich. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. xlvi + 313 pp. $30 paper. Kyla Schuller, Rutgers University­New Brunswick "Is not this slavery of the West a much more despicable one than that of the South," novelist A. Jennie Bartlett pleads in the preface to her recently republished 1882 anti-polygamy novel, "in that it is a slavery of defenceless women?" (3). Bartlett's Elder Northfield's Home; or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar gives us insight into how the intertwined logics of sex, race, and sentiment shaped a range of important nineteenth-century phenomena. These include feminisms, domesticity, sexual politics, religious intolerance, sensationalist epistemology, queer relations, the biopolitics of motherhood, and widespread civilizationist hierarchies that reserved the status of "civilized," and the correlated concepts of manhood and womanhood, to white Christians living in monogamous marriage within democratic and capitalist regimes. Nicole Tonkovich's introduction places the novel within its historical context, with careful attention to the history of polygamy and anti-polygamy activity and women's varied experiences of plural marriage, including its defenders. The republication of Elder Northfield's Home offers a nuanced example of an understudied nineteenthcentury social http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers University of Nebraska Press

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Elder Northfield's Home; or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar. By A. Jennie Bartlett. Edited by Nicole Tonkovich. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. xlvi + 313 pp. $30 paper. Kyla Schuller, Rutgers University­New Brunswick "Is not this slavery of the West a much more despicable one than that of the South," novelist A. Jennie Bartlett pleads in the preface to her recently republished 1882 anti-polygamy novel, "in that it is a slavery of defenceless women?" (3). Bartlett's Elder Northfield's Home; or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar gives us insight into how the intertwined logics of sex, race, and sentiment shaped a range of important nineteenth-century phenomena. These include feminisms, domesticity, sexual politics, religious intolerance, sensationalist epistemology, queer relations, the biopolitics of motherhood, and widespread civilizationist hierarchies that reserved the status of "civilized," and the correlated concepts of manhood and womanhood, to white Christians living in monogamous marriage within democratic and capitalist regimes. Nicole Tonkovich's introduction places the novel within its historical context, with careful attention to the history of polygamy and anti-polygamy activity and women's varied experiences of plural marriage, including its defenders. The republication of Elder Northfield's Home offers a nuanced example of an understudied nineteenthcentury social

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