Bush, Harold K. 1956-,

Mark Twain and the spiritual crisis of his age / [print] Harold K. Bush, Jr. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2007. - 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism . - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism. .



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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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Religion.


Christianity and literature--History--United States--19th century.

PS1342.B978.M375 2007 PS1342