Mark Twain's ReligionMercer University Press, 2003 - 386 psl. Although there are many studies of America's most famous literary figure, this thorough investigation provides not only new information on Twain's religion, but also a different approach from anything published before. Interpretations of Twain over the past century have been largely the province of literary critics. By skillful textual analysis they have produced an abundance of nuanced studies, but they tend to have little interest in, and knowledge of, the broad religious context of Victorian society, which both angered and intrigued Twain. Phipps provides perceptions often overlooked into the way Clemens's religion was related to such significant issues as racism, imperialism, and materialism. This study takes a close look at his growing up in the slave culture of Missouri Protestants and his subsequent involvement in the radically different abolition culture in which his wire was raised. Like Twain, who aimed at communicating with the common person, Phipps has written in a style that will attract the educated public while providing fresh insights for Twain scholars. His research has taken him to Hannibal, Elmira Hartford, and to the Twain archives in Berkeley. Mostly chronological, the book makes extensive use of Twain's works and, often neglected in such studies on Twain, the Bible, his most important literary source. |
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... hope to be able to provide some insights overlooked by Twain scholars into the way his reli- gion was related to such significant issues as racism , imperialism , and materialism . Indeed , several American literature specialists , who ...
... hope to be able to provide some insights overlooked by Twain scholars into the way his reli- gion was related to such significant issues as racism , imperialism , and materialism . Indeed , several American literature specialists , who ...
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... hope and joy in his faded eyes , of bringing back to his dead heart again the quick , generous impulses of other days , I shall be amply rewarded for my labor ; my soul will be permeated with the sacred delight a Christian feels when he ...
... hope and joy in his faded eyes , of bringing back to his dead heart again the quick , generous impulses of other days , I shall be amply rewarded for my labor ; my soul will be permeated with the sacred delight a Christian feels when he ...
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... hope for his sister - in - law , Mollie . The poem concludes : Years of sorrow and trouble will over you pass , And the ties of your Earth - home be riven , But your Winter of Woe will give place at the last , To a Spring everlasting in ...
... hope for his sister - in - law , Mollie . The poem concludes : Years of sorrow and trouble will over you pass , And the ties of your Earth - home be riven , But your Winter of Woe will give place at the last , To a Spring everlasting in ...
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... hope he will remember the boy who went out so cheerfully to swim and was carried home to his parents on a plank.38 Stories such as this had frightened MT as a child , and infuriated him now . In 1866 , he published " The Story of the ...
... hope he will remember the boy who went out so cheerfully to swim and was carried home to his parents on a plank.38 Stories such as this had frightened MT as a child , and infuriated him now . In 1866 , he published " The Story of the ...
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... hope your career may be long and useful . It is the highest dignity to which a man may aspire in this life , and , when its duties are faithfully performed , the satisfaction felt must be greater than that customarily felt by men in the ...
... hope your career may be long and useful . It is the highest dignity to which a man may aspire in this life , and , when its duties are faithfully performed , the satisfaction felt must be greater than that customarily felt by men in the ...
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Tpe AntiImperialist | 196 |
Biblical Usages | 215 |
Jewish Scriptures | 216 |
The New Testament | 235 |
Scriptural Affusions | 242 |
Theological Journey | 257 |
Views of Jesus | 271 |
Evil anb Freedom | 275 |
Travel Reflections | 75 |
Amid Liberal Caivmists | 83 |
In Hartforb | 105 |
Relations with Cable | 128 |
Justice m America | 137 |
Political Morality | 149 |
Race Relations | 156 |
Womens Rights | 175 |
AmbassaboratLarge | 181 |
In Europe | 182 |
Global Tour | 188 |
Versonal Immortality | 293 |
Final Quest | 307 |
Search for Healing | 315 |
Bittersweet Last Years | 322 |
Conclusion | 345 |
Ethics and Truth | 353 |
Humorist and Treacher | 357 |
The Tolerant Monotfest | 362 |
Bibliography | 371 |
Index | 377 |
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