{"product_id":"9781611980653","title":"The Minister's Wooing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Minister's Wooing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a historical novel by \u003cbr\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe. Set in eighteenth-century New England, the novel \u003cbr\u003esatirizes the Calvinism Stowe had grown up with. While it is often compared to \u003cbr\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e (1850), \u003ci\u003eThe Minster's \u003cbr\u003eWooing\u003c\/i\u003e takes a different look at the regional history of New England and \u003cbr\u003econnects with Stowe's earlier anti-slavery novels in that it highlights the \u003cbr\u003eissue of slavery, this time in the north. In contrast to Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eThe \u003cbr\u003eScarlett Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Minister's Wooing\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"sentimental romance\"; \u003cbr\u003eits central plot revolves around getting married. Stowe was intimately familiar \u003cbr\u003ewith the historical issues in the novel and many aspects are based on her own \u003cbr\u003eand her older sister Catharine's life. In particular, responding to the untimely \u003cbr\u003edeath of two of her children, Stowe addresses the issue of predestination, the \u003cbr\u003eidea that individuals were either \"saved\" or \"damned,\" and only the elect would \u003cbr\u003ego to heaven. In this novel, Stowe exposes the contradictions inherent in \u003cbr\u003eCalvinism, the religion of her father, the well-known minister Lyman Beecher. \u003cbr\u003eIndeed, Stowe herself later attended Episcopalian services. \u003ci\u003eThe Minister's \u003cbr\u003eWooing\u003c\/i\u003e was first serialized in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e from December \u003cbr\u003e1858 to December 1859, and then published in book form first in England by Derby \u003cbr\u003eand Johnson, and then in the U.S, to guarantee British royalties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Excerpted from \u003ci\u003eWikipedia, \u003c\/i\u003ethe free encyclopedia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MobileReference","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113225175280,"sku":"9781611980653","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611980653_p0.jpg?v=1763840078","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611980653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}