Book Of Mormon Summary
The Book of Mormon, presented as the translation of a recovered, ancient text, chronicles the history of a people who, while originating in the traditionally recognizable near eastern biblical landscape, journeyed to, and settled in America. It is traditionally read as a wholly religious text
I approach this work as a piece of literature, and the imaginative work of Joseph Smith as its single author, in so doing I hope to explore his use of the device of first-person narration as it appears in “The First Book of Nephi” (hereafter referred to as 1 Nephi) and how it fits into (and perhaps even anticipates) the emerging movement of romantic idealism during the American Renaissance of its contemporary nineteenth-century New England.
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I approach this work as a piece of literature, and the imaginative work of Joseph Smith as its single author, in so doing I hope to explore his use of the device of first-person narration as it appears in “The First Book of Nephi” (hereafter referred to as 1 Nephi) and how it fits into (and perhaps even anticipates) the emerging movement of romantic idealism during the American Renaissance of its contemporary nineteenth-century New England.
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