Calvinist humor in American literature
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
c2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Calvinist humor
- Calvinist humor and the American puritans: "the just hand of God"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: "that would be a jest indeed"
- Herman Melville: "in no world but a fallen one"
- Mark Twain: "the trouble about special providences"
- William Faulkner: "waiting for the part to begin which he would not like"
- Ernest Hemingway: "isn't it pretty to think so?"
- Nathanael West: "gloriously funny"
- Flannery O'Connor: "funny because it is terrible"
- Calvinist humor revisited.