Mormon Literature Database

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Description The Mormon Literature Database contains heading records that introduce and describe a given series, listing each of the members of that series (and linking to the complete record for each member of the series). Such heading records for series only exist where the entire series is by a Mormon author, or where the entire series includes Mormon subject matter, or where the entire series is published by a Mormon publisher. Some works in this database are members of a series, but the larger series does not meet these parameters (and so will not have a separate record here). In this database the term "series" is not to be confused with periodicals, which have their own identifying records.
Genre History The earliest literary series in Mormon history was the Faith Promoting Series developed by George Q. Cannon in the 1870s. Between 1913-1970, the Relief Society Magazine included several series of literary-oriented Relief Society lessons. Beginning in the 1980s, after Mormon fiction became well established, the fiction series has become a very popular mode of Latter-day Saint literary expression, spear-headed by Gerald Lund's The Work and the Glory series, and Dean Hughes' Children of the Promise series. Other series include works of criticism, such as the proceedings of the Association for Mormon Letters.