Mark Twain and Religion : A Mirror of American Eclecticism
by
John Q Hays
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820408549
ISBN-13
9780820408545
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1989
Print length
226 Pages
Weight
412 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 22.50 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Ksh 6,050.00
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Literary scholars long have insisted that, because of familial and financial tragedy and a growing feeling of artistic failure, Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) suffered the deterioration of his religious writing into inconsistency and bleak despair. Refuting that critical dogmatism, John Q. Hays''s seminal Mark Twain and Religion: A Mirror of American Eclecticism rejects notions of personal causation and instead attributes the inconsistency and despair to the properties of the materials with which Twain worked. Having rejected religious orthodoxy, Twain successively examines 18th century Rationalism, early 19th century Romanticism, and late 19th and early 20th century Scientific Determinism (all with undercurrents of folkloric supernaturalism he had learned from black slaves of his youth) in a literary eclectic journey similar to that of the corporate national mind and soul and reflective of someone spiritually alive.
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