Contributor
Goldman, Alan H., 1945- editor.
ImprintLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Descriptionxiv, 247 pages ; 23 cm.
Note:Pt. I. Morality in Huckleberry Finn. The conscience of Huckleberry Finn / Jonathan Bennett -- Huckleberry Finn and moral motivation / Alan H. Goldman -- Sympathy, principles, and conscience : getting to the heart of Huck Finn's moral praiseworthiness / Robert Fudge -- Huckleberry Finn's struggle between sympathy and moral principle reconsidered / Michael Lyons -- Twain's last laugh / Kristina Gehrman -- pt. II. Twain on religion. The gospel according to Mark (Twain) / Craig Vasey -- Mark Twain and the problem of evil : The mysterious stranger, Letters from the earth, and The diaries of Adam and Eve / James M. McLachlan -- pt. III. Moral issues. The noble art of lying / James Edwin Mahon -- Twain's critique hf euman Exceptionalism : "the descent of man" and the anti-vivisection movement / Emily E. VanDette -- pt. IV. Literary devices. Mark Twain's serious humor and that peculiar institution : Christianity / Chris A. Kramer -- Socratic irony in Twain's skeptical religious Jeremiads / Dale Jacquette -- pt. V. Comparison to other philosophers. The American diogenes : Mark Twainss sacred profanity / Brian Earl Johnson -- An epicurean consideration of superstitions in Mark Twain and in the good life / Jennifer Baker -- Moral value and moral psychology in Twain's "Carnival of crime" / Frank Boardman -- Making the heart grow fonder : Twain, psychical distance, and aesthetic experience / Jeffrey Dueck.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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