“A heresy is something that so crosses the line that it’s no longer Christian. Ron Rhodes explains why we might want to think twice before labeling the beliefs of another as heresy. He is currently at work on a full-scale study of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which will appear in 2018.What does it really mean to label something heresy?ĭr. Csicsila is also editor of the Modern Library edition of Mark Twain’s The Gilded Age (2005) and the Broadview Press teaching volume of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Forthcoming 2017). 44, The Mysterious Stranger(2009), co-edited with Chad Rohman and Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain (2010), co-authored with Lawrence Berkove. His writings include Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies (2004) Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain’s No. Joseph Csicsila is Professor of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He is the editor of The Fighting Horse of the Stanislaus: Stories and Essays by Dan De Quille, The Sagebrush Anthology: Literature from the Silver Age of the Old West, and The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain and co-editor of The Short Fiction of Ambroseīierce as well as author of numerous articles on Twain. Berkove is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. Their recent book, Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain, is the first full-length study to assess the importance of Twain's heretical Calvinism as the foundation of his major works, bringing to light important thematic ties that connect the author's early work to his high period and from there to his late work.
Join Lawrence Berkove and Joseph Csicsila as they challenge the prevailing belief that Mark Twain's position on religion hovered somewhere between skepticism and outright heresy.
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