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Mark Twain and the spiritual crisis of his age /
The writer's fascination with America's spiritual and religious evolution in the 19th century. Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. Such a view, however, is only partly correct. It ignores the social realities o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mark Twain's roots : Hannibal, the river, and the west
- Mark Twain's wife : the moral ethos of the Victorian home
- Mark Twain's pastor : Joe Twichell and social Christianity
- Mark Twain's liberal faith : the social gospel on Asylum Hill
- Mark Twain's Civil War : civil religion and the Lost Cause
- Mark Twain's American Adam : humor as hope and apocalypse
- Mark Twain's grief : the final years.