Episodio 89: El antimormonismo en la literatura del siglo 19

Historia del antimormonismo en los Estados Unidos.

  Ilustracion de Boadicea, The Mormon Wife
Nótese las vestimentas arabescas de los personajes mormones, 
así como la media luna en el fondo

 

 

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)

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).

Sherlock Holmes investiga un
asesinato cometido por un
danita mormón en Study in Scarlet

35. Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet(Primera novela de Sherlock Holmes) (London, 1887; Philadelphia, 1890).

36. Tourgee, Albion Winegar. Button's Inn(Boston, 1887).

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).