Mark Twain and the spiritual crisis of his age
By: Harold K. Bush, Jr
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780817315382
Subjects: Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Religion; Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-331) and index
Table of contents: title: Mark Twain's roots : Hannibal, the river, and the west; title: Mark Twain's wife : the moral ethos of the Victorian home; title: Mark Twain's pastor : Joe Twichell and social Christianity; title: Mark Twain's liberal faith : the social gospel on Asylum Hill; title: Mark Twain's Civil War : civil religion and the Lost Cause; title: Mark Twain's American Adam : humor as hope and apocalypse; title: Mark Twain's grief : the final years