Calvinist humor in American literature
By: Michael Dunne.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807132609
Subjects: American wit and humor -- History and criticism.; American literature -- History and criticism.; Calvinism in literature.; Wit and humor -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Comic, The -- Religious aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Calvinist humor 1; value: Calvinist humor and the American puritans: "the just hand of God"; value: Nathaniel Hawthorne: "that would be a jest indeed"; value: Herman Melville: "in no world but a fallen one"; value: Mark Twain: "the trouble about special providences"; value: William Faulkner: "waiting for the part to begin which he would not like"; value: Ernest Hemingway: "isn't it pretty to think so?"; value: Nathanael West: "gloriously funny"; value: Flannery O'Connor: "funny because it is terrible"; value: Calvinist humor revisited.