The Reverend Mark Twain
Subtitle: theological burlesque, form, and content
By: Joe B. Fulton.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814210246; 9780814291016
Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Religion and literature.; Theology in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian : conformity and critique in Mark Twain's religious dialogue; title: Providence don't fire no blank cartridges, boys : God, grotesques, and Sunday-school books in Roughing it; title: Mark Twain's hymns in prose : doxology and burlesque in The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; title: Mark Twain's cruci-fictions : the Second advent as a burlesque life of Christ; title: The morphology of martyrdom : fairy tale, epic, and hagiography in Personal recollections of Joan of Arc; title: Q: what do Socrates and the shorter catechism have in common? a: dialogic influences on Twain's What is man?; title: Prophecy went out with the chicken guts : No. 44, The mysterious stranger, and the christian prophetic tradition.