Mark Twain and the Brazen Serpent

How Biblical Burlesque and Religious Satire Unify Huckleberry Finn

Doug Aldridge (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6845-1 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th to 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain's style dissects Huck's conscience to propose humane amorality as a corrective to moral absolutes.

Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain's richly evocative style dissects Huck's conscience to propose humane amorality as a corrective to moral absolutes. Jim and Huck emerge as archetypal twins--biracial brothers who prefigure America's color-blind ideals.

Doug Aldridge is a freelance writer and independent Mark Twain scholar who lives in Tennessee’s Blue Ridge Mountains. He welcomes comments and questions at MarkTwainandtheBrazenSerpent.com.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

One. Perspectives on Point of View: A Tale with Three Tellers

Two. Precedents for Viewing Huck Finn as Biblical Burlesque and Religious Satire

Three. Catching the Brazen Serpent in Clemens’ Net of Allusion: Huckleberry Finn, Paradise Lost, and the Bible

Four. To Vilify “the Ways of God to Men”: Huck Finn, Pilgrim’s Progress, The Inferno and Paradise Lost

Five. “Dark, Deep-Laid Plans”: The Evasion as Religious Satire

Six. Author-Real Intention: Huckleberry Finn as Religious Satire

Seven. Dancing with the Devil

Afterword: “Sam Clemens Arrives at the Pearly Gates: A Dialog between the Author and the Doorman”

Appendix A: The First Person Huckleberry Finn Chapter Titles

Appendix B: Pap Confronts Huck in Chapter V and Genesis 3: 9–24

Appendix C: Samuel Clemens’ Burlesque of Milton’s Hell

Appendix D: Awakening in Paradise

Appendix E: The Duke and the King Introduce Themselves

Appendix F: Huck’s “Great Debate” and Satan’s

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-6845-0 / 1476668450
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6845-1 / 9781476668451
Zustand	Neuware