Healing the Nation: Literature, Progress, and Christian Science

A surprising history of how Christian Science swept through America, reflected in literature of the time by Twain, Dreiser, Cather, and more.
Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and complex connections between religion and literature in American culture.
Mary Baker Eddy's Church of Christ, Scientist was one of the fastest growing and most controversial religious movements in t...