Patristic Exegesis: A Medieval Tom Sawyer.

Author / Editor
Halverson, John.

Title
Patristic Exegesis: A Medieval Tom Sawyer.

Published
College English 27 (1965): 50-55.

Description
Parodies patristic criticism by reading Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" as an indictment of concupiscent love, drawing recurrent comparisons between the structure and imagery of Twain's novel and BD.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Background and General Criticism