Thrill of the chaste : the allure of Amish romance novels /
Browse the inspirational fiction section of your local bookstore, and you will likely find cover after cover depicting virtuous young women cloaked in modest dresses and wearing a pensive or playful expression. They hover innocently above sun-drenched pastures or rustic country lanes, often with a h...
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Slap a bonnet on the cover
- The DNA of Amish romance novels
- An evangelical and an Amishman walk into a barn
- Taking the Amish to market
- Is Amishness next to godliness?
- An Amish country getaway
- Virgin mothers
- Amish reading Amish
- Something borrowed, something true
- Happily ever after.
