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- catalog abstract ""The nation's leading minister stands accused of adultery. He vehemently denies the charge but confesses to being on "the ragged edge of despair." His alleged lover is a woman of mystical faith, nearly "Catholic" in her piety. Her husband, a famous writer, sues the minister for damages. A six-month trial ends inconclusively, but it holds the nation in thrall. It produces gripping drama, scathing cartoons, and soul-searching editorials. Trials of Intimacy is the story of a scandal that shook American culture to the core in the 1870s because the key players were such vaunted moral leaders. In that respect there has never been another case like it - except The Scarlet Letter, to which it was constantly compared."--Jacket. "To the nineteenth-century public, the Beecher-Tilton Scandal was an irresistible mystery. Richard Fox puts his contemporary readers into that same reverberating story, while offering it as a timeless tale of love, deception, faith, and the confounding indeterminacy of truth. Trials of Intimacy revises our conception of nineteenth-century morals and passions."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11381104.
- catalog coverage "Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Biography.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""The nation's leading minister stands accused of adultery. He vehemently denies the charge but confesses to being on "the ragged edge of despair." His alleged lover is a woman of mystical faith, nearly "Catholic" in her piety. Her husband, a famous writer, sues the minister for damages. A six-month trial ends inconclusively, but it holds the nation in thrall. It produces gripping drama, scathing cartoons, and soul-searching editorials. Trials of Intimacy is the story of a scandal that shook American culture to the core in the 1870s because the key players were such vaunted moral leaders. In that respect there has never been another case like it - except The Scarlet Letter, to which it was constantly compared."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""To the nineteenth-century public, the Beecher-Tilton Scandal was an irresistible mystery. Richard Fox puts his contemporary readers into that same reverberating story, while offering it as a timeless tale of love, deception, faith, and the confounding indeterminacy of truth. Trials of Intimacy revises our conception of nineteenth-century morals and passions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Last Accounts, 1907, 1897, 1887 -- 2. Final Stories, 1876, 1878, 1884 -- 3. Public Retellings, 1874 -- 4. Public Retellings, 1875 -- 5. Private Retellings, Public Exposures, 1870-1873 -- 6. Early Stories, 1855-1866 -- 7. Early Stories, 1867-1869 -- 8. The Tilton Letters, 1866-1869 -- 9. Legends, Histories, 1999-1872 -- App. Documents, 1863-1874.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-412) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 419 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226259382 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog subject "285.8/092/2 B 21".
- catalog subject "BX7260.B31 F68 1999".
- catalog subject "Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887.".
- catalog subject "Congregationalists New York (State) New York Biography.".
- catalog subject "Tilton, Elizabeth M. Richards, 1834-".
- catalog subject "Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Last Accounts, 1907, 1897, 1887 -- 2. Final Stories, 1876, 1878, 1884 -- 3. Public Retellings, 1874 -- 4. Public Retellings, 1875 -- 5. Private Retellings, Public Exposures, 1870-1873 -- 6. Early Stories, 1855-1866 -- 7. Early Stories, 1867-1869 -- 8. The Tilton Letters, 1866-1869 -- 9. Legends, Histories, 1999-1872 -- App. Documents, 1863-1874.".
- catalog title "Trials of intimacy : love and loss in the Beecher-Tilton scandal / Richard Wightman Fox.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".