Eutsey’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
Eutsey discusses religious liberalism’s strong, but often times neglected, influence on Twain and his writings
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Never In A Hurry To Believe: The Theology of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
On this day 132 years ago the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the first “banning” of Adventures of Huckleberry, by the Concord Public Library. Controversy has followed the novel ever since, with the most recent ruckus occurring just a few months ago in a Virginia school district. Recent attempts to suppress the book are prompted by its racially offensive language instead of snobby objections to “rough, ignorant dialect.” Both cases, however, seem fixated on the novel’s […]