TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berkove,Lawrence I.
AU  - Csicsila,Joseph
TI  - Heretical fictions: religion in the literature of Mark Twain 
SN  - 9781587299377
AV  - PS1342.R4 B47 2010eb
U1  - 818/.409 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - Twain, Mark,
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Religion dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic book
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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