Mark Twain and the spiritual crisis of his age
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 of Twains major period as a writer and his own spiritual interests: his participation in church activities, his socially progressive agenda, his reliance on religious themes in his major works, and his friendships with clergymen, especially his pastor and best friend, Joe Twichell. It also betrays a conception of religion that is more contemporary than that of the period in which he lived
Print Book, English, ©2007
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, ©2007
History
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780817315382, 0817315381
68192310
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
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