Introduction, Alan H. Goldman

Part I: Morality in Huckleberry Finn
Chapter 1: The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn, Jonathan Bennett
Chapter 2: Huckleberry Finn and Moral Motivation, Alan H. Goldman
Chapter 3: Sympathy, Principles, and Conscience: Getting to the Heart of Huck Finn’s Moral Praiseworthiness, Robert Fudge
Chapter 4: Huckleberry Finn’s Struggle between Sympathy and Moral Principle Reconsidered, Michael Lyons
Chapter 5: Twain’s Last Laugh, Kristina Gehrman

Part II: Twain on Religion
Chapter 6: The Gospel According to Mark (Twain), Craig Vasey
Chapter 7: Mark Twain and the Problem of Evil: The Mysterious Stranger, Letters from the Earth, and The Diaries of Adam and Eve, James M. McLachlan

Part III: Moral Issues
Chapter 8: The Noble Art of Lying, James Edwin Mahon
Chapter 9: Twain’s Critique of Human Exceptionalism: “The Descent of Man” and the Anti-Vivisection Movement, Emily E. VanDette

Part IV: Literary Devices
Chapter 10: Mark Twain’s Serious Humor and that Peculiar Institution: Christianity, Chris A. Kramer
Chapter 11: Socratic Irony in Twain’s Skeptical Religious Jeremiads, Dale Jacquette

Part V: Comparison to Other Philosophers
Chapter 12: The American Diogenes: Mark Twain’s Sacred Profanity, Brian Earl Johnson
Chapter 13: An Epicurean Consideration of Superstitions in Mark Twain and in the Good Life, Jennifer Baker
Chapter 14: Moral Value and Moral Psychology in Twain’s “Carnival of Crime”, Frank Boardman
Chapter 15: Making the Heart Grow Fonder: Twain, Psychical Distance, and Aesthetic Experience, Jeffrey Dueck

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