The Reverend Mark Twain : theological burlesque, form, and content / [Joe B. Fulton].

Author/creator Fulton, Joe B., 1962-
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxiv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents "I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian" : conformity and critique in Mark Twain's religious dialogue -- "Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys" : God, grotesques, and Sunday-school books in Mark Twain's Roughing it -- Mark Twain's hymns in prose : doxology and burlesque in The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain's cruci-fictions : "The second advent" as a burlesque life of Christ -- The morphology of martyrdom : fairy tale, epic, and hagiography in Personal recollections of Joan of Arc -- Q: what do Socrates and the shorter catechism have in common? a: dialogic influences on Mark Twain's What is man? -- "Prophecy went out with the chicken guts" : No. 44, the mysterious stranger, and the Christian prophetic tradition.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-219) and index.
LCCN 2005033137
ISBN0814210244 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814291015 (CD)
ISBN9780814210246
ISBN9780814291016

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Joyner General Stacks PS1338 .F85 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold