{"product_id":"the-viper-on-the-hearth","title":"The Viper on the Hearth","description":"\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-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 sought to violate the domestic sphere of the mainstream. While other critics have mined the socio-political sources of anti-Mormonism, Givens is the first to reveal how popular fiction, in its attempt to deal with the sources and nature of this conflict, constructed an image of the Mormon as a religious and social \"Other.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Terryl Givens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43564139282493,"sku":"9780195101836","price":337.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-viper-on-the-hearth","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}