Spring 2004, Vol. 53, No. 3

Articles

Mark Twain’s American Adam: Humor as Hope and Apocalypse
Harold K. Bush, Jr.

“Some--are like My Own--“: Emily Dickinson’s Christology of Embodiment
Roxanne Harde

The Stain on the Mirror: Pauline Reflections in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Kevin Mills

Joyce Among the Brothers
John W. Mahon

Anglicanism and the Poetry of John Betjeman
Kevin J. Gardner

Redemption as Language in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree
John Rothfork

Poetry

On the First Day
Jill Alexander Essbaum

St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Gerringong
Peter Stiles

Auction
Margarita Engle

Prepped for the Bypass
Terry H. Wallace

Heart Talk
Joseph A. Chelius

Seven-Year-Old Girl Escapes from Kidnappers
Marjorie Maddox

Book Reviews

Towards a Christian Literary Theory by Luke Ferretter
Susan E. Hill

Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England by Ramie Targoff
John N. Wall

Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England by Dennis Taylor and David N. Beauregard, eds.
John D. Cox

The Merchant of Venice: New Critical Essays by John W. Mahon and Ellen Macleod Mahon, eds.
Paul J. Voss

Puritanism and Its Discontents by Laura Lunger Knoppers, ed.
Kevin Collins

American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures by Joanna Brooks
Walter A. Hesford

Mark Twain’s Religion by William E. Phipps
Harold K. Bush, Jr.

Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred by Alexander Irwin
John Marson Dunaway

The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
Robert K. Johnston

At the Mercy Seat by Susan McCaslin
Michael H. Lythgoe