The scholarly significance and richness of Morgan's book are difficult to overstate. Thoroughly grounded in the secondary literature on nineteenth-century Protestantism, his book incorporates the insights of that work with his own prodigious research in order to produce a compelling new synthesis.

• Introduction 1: Media, Millennium, Nationhood Part I: The Millennial Mission of the American Republic 2: Evangelical Images and the American Tract Society 3: The Visual Rhetoric of Northern Evangelicalism Part II: Adventism and Images of the End 4: Millerism and the Schematic Imagination 5: The Commerce of Images and Adventist Piety Part III: Visual Pedagogy 6: Pictures and Children 7: Talking Pictures Part IV: The Rise of the Devotional Image in American Protestantism 8: The Devotional Likeness of Christ 9: Religious Art and the Formation of Character Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

The scholarly significance and richness of Morgan's book are difficult to overstate. Thoroughly grounded in the secondary literature on nineteenth-century Protestantism, his book incorporates the insights of that work with his own prodigious research in order to produce a compelling new synthesis.

• Introduction 1: Media, Millennium, Nationhood Part I: The Millennial Mission of the American Republic 2: Evangelical Images and the American Tract Society 3: The Visual Rhetoric of Northern Evangelicalism Part II: Adventism and Images of the End 4: Millerism and the Schematic Imagination 5: The Commerce of Images and Adventist Piety Part III: Visual Pedagogy 6: Pictures and Children 7: Talking Pictures Part IV: The Rise of the Devotional Image in American Protestantism 8: The Devotional Likeness of Christ 9: Religious Art and the Formation of Character Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

The scholarly significance and richness of Morgan's book are difficult to overstate. Thoroughly grounded in the secondary literature on nineteenth-century Protestantism, his book incorporates the insights of that work with his own prodigious research in order to produce a compelling new synthesis.

• Introduction 1: Media, Millennium, Nationhood Part I: The Millennial Mission of the American Republic 2: Evangelical Images and the American Tract Society 3: The Visual Rhetoric of Northern Evangelicalism Part II: Adventism and Images of the End 4: Millerism and the Schematic Imagination 5: The Commerce of Images and Adventist Piety Part III: Visual Pedagogy 6: Pictures and Children 7: Talking Pictures Part IV: The Rise of the Devotional Image in American Protestantism 8: The Devotional Likeness of Christ 9: Religious Art and the Formation of Character Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index