Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
Preface....................xiii
1 Twain's Countertheology I Have Always Preached....................1
2 Roughing It The Dream of the Good Life....................27
3 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer A Company So Small as to Be Hardly Worth the Saving....................62
4 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Hoax of Freedom....................81
5 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Eclipse of Hope....................110
6 No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger The False Promise of the Mind....................153
7 The Last Letters from Earth Between Despair and Compassion....................189
Notes....................215
Bibliography....................247
Index....................261