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Heretical fictions : religion in the literature of Mark Twain / Lawrence I. Berkove and Joseph Csicsila.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 271 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781587299377
  • 1587299372
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Heretical fictions.DDC classification:
  • 818/.409 22
LOC classification:
  • PS1342.R4 B47 2010eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Twain's countertheology : I have always preached -- Roughing it : the dream of the good life -- Adventures of Tom Sawyer : a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : the hoax of freedom -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court : the eclipse of hope -- No. 44, the mysterious stranger : the false promise of the mind -- The last letters from Earth : between despair and compassion.
Summary: Heretical Fictions is the first full-length study to assess the importance of Twain's heretical Calvinism as the foundation of his major works, bringing to light important thematic ties that connect the author's early work to his high period and from there to his late work. Berkove and Csicsila set forth the main elements of Twain's "countertheological" interpretation of Calvinism and analyze in detail the way it shapes five of his major books - Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and No. 44, The Mysterious
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)334705

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Twain's countertheology : I have always preached -- Roughing it : the dream of the good life -- Adventures of Tom Sawyer : a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : the hoax of freedom -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court : the eclipse of hope -- No. 44, the mysterious stranger : the false promise of the mind -- The last letters from Earth : between despair and compassion.

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Heretical Fictions is the first full-length study to assess the importance of Twain's heretical Calvinism as the foundation of his major works, bringing to light important thematic ties that connect the author's early work to his high period and from there to his late work. Berkove and Csicsila set forth the main elements of Twain's "countertheological" interpretation of Calvinism and analyze in detail the way it shapes five of his major books - Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and No. 44, The Mysterious