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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... poor . . . . I would instruct other boys in right ways , and take the resulting trouncings meekly . I would subsist entirely on tracts ; I would invade the rum shop and warn the drunkard.50 Still another event that occurred in Sam's ...
... poor . . . . I would instruct other boys in right ways , and take the resulting trouncings meekly . I would subsist entirely on tracts ; I would invade the rum shop and warn the drunkard.50 Still another event that occurred in Sam's ...
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... poor , ignorant heathen in some far off part of the world ; I thought , too , of the passage in the Bible instructing the disciples to carry their good works into all the world— beginning first at Jerusalem . 137 John Hays perceives ...
... poor , ignorant heathen in some far off part of the world ; I thought , too , of the passage in the Bible instructing the disciples to carry their good works into all the world— beginning first at Jerusalem . 137 John Hays perceives ...
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... poor and unattractive women . To make his point by exaggeration , he described Young's difficulty in coping with the complaints of some twenty wives and their fifty children whenever he gave something to one without giving equally to ...
... poor and unattractive women . To make his point by exaggeration , he described Young's difficulty in coping with the complaints of some twenty wives and their fifty children whenever he gave something to one without giving equally to ...
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... poor widow wondered if those who " stuffed " her husband thought she was going to start a museum . 25 MT was fond of at least one minister in Nevada — Franklin Rising , whom he got to know during their years together at Virginia City ...
... poor widow wondered if those who " stuffed " her husband thought she was going to start a museum . 25 MT was fond of at least one minister in Nevada — Franklin Rising , whom he got to know during their years together at Virginia City ...
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... poor Irish subscribers hated the Chinese.54 Realizing that MT's temperament did not match the prejudices of those on whom the newspaper's survival depended , the editor dismissed him . A note to Mollie shows that his unemployment and ...
... poor Irish subscribers hated the Chinese.54 Realizing that MT's temperament did not match the prejudices of those on whom the newspaper's survival depended , the editor dismissed him . A note to Mollie shows that his unemployment and ...
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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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