Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age /
Harold K. Bush, Jr.
- Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, c2007.
- 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- 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.