From Foe to Friend: The Mormon Embrace of Fiction BY MATTHEW DURRANT AND NEAL E. LAMBERT
Illustration from an 1884 Juvenile Instructor short story in which the hero suffers an almost fatal accident when he goes boating on the Sabbath.
1880s MIGHT BE called, as was the Puritan literature of the 1680s, a "great body of low grade ore." Still, it should not be dismissed out of hand, for the Mormon magazines of the . M O R M O N LITERATURE OF THE
Dr. Lambert is associate academic vice-president of Brigham Young University. Mr. Durrant is a student at Harvard Law School.
