Religious and Esthetic Vision in Mark Twain's Early Career
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James D Wilson (0000-0002-2354-935X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-172 |
| Publication date | 1986-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-017-02-02 |
| OpenAlex | W2332829147 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Discussions of Mark Twain's theology and attitudes toward religion usually focus on the deterministic cosmic view, the savagery of his attacks upon an implacable deity, and the unrelenting despair characteristic of the last fifteen years of his life. The publication of Bernard DeVoto's edition of Letters from the Earth (1962), the recent widespread availability of letters, autobiographical dictations, fables and fragments from the last decade of Mark Twain's life have enabled those interested in Mark Twain to construct a reasonably coherent theological system under which the aging author labored, and which he articulated forcefully and unremittingly from 1896 (the publication of Joan of Arc) to his death in 1910.1 Mark Twain's oft-quoted reference to "the damned human race" becomes, Stanley Brodwin contends, "a theological condemnation and judgment" that reflects both the author's childhood training in Presbyterian theology and his mature intellectual commitment to the scientific determinism prevalent in late-nineteenth-century Anglo-American culture.2
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| Highly cited | No |
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