Mark Twain - Gary Scott Smith

Mark Twain

Preacher, Prophet, and Social Philosopher
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2021
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289492-2 (ISBN)
39,95 inkl. MwSt
Smith offers an engaging biography of one of the world's most inspiring, humorous, and provocative authors. He analyzes Mark Twain's constantly changing views of Christianity, humanity, the afterlife, and other theological topics, thereby providing a window into the spiritual crisis of the Gilded Age.
Mark Twain's literary works have intrigued and inspired readers from the late 1860s to the present. His varied experiences as a journeyman printer, river boat pilot, prospector, journalist, novelist, humorist, businessman, and world traveller, combined with his incredible imagination and astonishing creativity, enabled him to devise some of American literature's most memorable characters and engaging stories.

Twain had a complicated relationship with Christianity. He strove to understand, critique, and sometimes promote various theological ideas and insights. His religious perspective was often inconsistent and even contradictory. While many scholars have overlooked Twain's strong interest in religious matters, others disagree sharply about his religious views--with many labelling him a secularist, an agnostic, or an atheist. In this compelling biography, Gary Scott Smith shows that throughout his life Twain was an entertainer, satirist, novelist, and reformer, but also functioned as a preacher, prophet, and social philosopher. Twain tackled universal themes with penetrating insight and wit including the character of God, human nature, sin, providence, corruption, greed, hypocrisy, poverty, racism, and imperialism. Moreover, his life provides a window into the principal trends and developments in American religion from 1865 to 1910.

Gary Scott Smith taught at Grove City College from 1978 to 2017 where he chaired the History Department and coordinated the Humanities Core. He received Grove City's inaugural Professor of the Year award in 2000, and the next year he was named Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He is the author or editor of seventeen books.

Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Persons and Works
1: Introduction
2: 1835-1860: Life Along and On the Mississippi
3: The 1860s: Journalism, a Pilgrimage, and Courtship
4: The 1870s: Hartford as a Religious Haven
5: The 1880s: In Hartford as In Heaven
6: The 1890s: A Troubled Time
7: The 1900s: Trying to Make Sense of Life
8: Conclusion
Selected Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Spiritual Lives
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 202 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-289492-7 / 0192894927
ISBN-13 978-0-19-289492-2 / 9780192894922
Zustand Neuware
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