MormonTimes.com: Author continues innovative work
Givens' goal is to write both honestly, fairly about church
Terryl L. Givens noticed that 19th-century authors kept using a particular stock villain: the Mormons.
"The Mormon villain became a kind of shorthand for everything America was opposed to in the 19th century," said Givens, a professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond in Virginia.
Givens spoke with Joe Cannon, editor of the Deseret News, in an interview last week.
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There is no doubt much of the animosity toward Mormons in the 19th...
Anonymous | Aug. 7, 2008 at 12:16 p.m.
