Bush, Harold K. 1956-

Mark Twain and the spiritual crisis of his age [electronic resource] / Harold K. Bush, Jr. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007. - 340 p. : ill. - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism . - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-331) and index.

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.


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