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![The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy by Terryl Givens](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNVNiWWc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e58f487065135d80f01eca0772d5d6402c82415a/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Viper%20on%20the%20Hearth-%20Mormons,%20Myths,%20and%20the%20Construction%20of%20Heresy.jpg)
232 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195101836
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 30 January 1997
Description
Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people--the "viper on the hearth"--who sou...
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![The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy by Terryl Givens](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNVNiWWc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e58f487065135d80f01eca0772d5d6402c82415a/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Viper%20on%20the%20Hearth-%20Mormons,%20Myths,%20and%20the%20Construction%20of%20Heresy.jpg)
232 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195101836
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 30 January 1997
Description
Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people--the "viper on the hearth"--who sou...