Calvinist Humor in American Literature »

Preface     vii
Calvinist Humor     1
Calvinist Humor and the American Puritans: "The Just Hand of God"     22
Nathaniel Hawthorne: "That Would Be a Jest Indeed"     43
Herman Melville: "In No World but a Fallen One"     64
Mark Twain: "The Trouble about Special Providences"     82
William Faulkner: "Waiting for the Part to Begin Which He Would Not Like"     101
Ernest Hemingway: "Isn't It Pretty to Think So?"     128
Nathanael West: "Gloriously Funny"     145
Flannery O'Connor: "Funny because It Is Terrible"     162
Calvinist Humor Revisited     184
Notes     195
Works Cited     205
Index     217