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An edition of Up from Methodism (1926)

Up from Methodism

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"In 1926, Herbert Asbury, great-great-nephew of Francis Asbury, the first American Bishop of the Methodist Church, submitted a chapter of his profane work-in-progress, an almost spiteful memoir of his boyhood in Farmington, Missouri to H.L. Mencken's American Mercury magazine. Mencken published "Hatrack," the story of the town prostitute. The Mercury was then banned in Boston at the incitement of the New England Watch and Ward Society as "bad, vile, raw stuff," and Mencken was arrested for selling copies on Boston Common." "In its restrained, but unrelenting attack on religious bigotry, irrationality, and hypocrisy, Up From Methodism retains its transgressive power today. In his mocking humor and plain-spun language, used to evoke a bygone South suffocating in its fear of pleasure and damnation, Asbury reveals his debt to another son of Missouri, Mark Twain."--Jacket.

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Thunder's Mouth Press
Language
English
Pages
142

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Subjects

Controversial literature, Biography, Methodists, Childhood and youth, Methodist Church, Methodist church, doctrines

People

Herbert Asbury (1891-1963), Herbert Asbury

Places

Farmington, Farmington (Mo.), Missouri
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Up from Methodism
2003, Thunder's Mouth Press
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Up from Methodism: A Memoir of a Man Gone to the Devil
2003, Thunder's Mouth Press
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Cover of: Up from Methodism.
Up from Methodism.
1930, A.A. Knopf
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Cover of: Up from Methodism
Up from Methodism
1926, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
Cover of: Up from Methodism.
Up from Methodism.
1926, Knopf
in English
Cover of: Up from Methodism
Up from Methodism
1926, A.A. Knopf
in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1926. With new foreword.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography., Controversial literature.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
287/.6/092, B
Library of Congress
BX8495.A83 A3 2003, BX8495.A83A3 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 142 p. ;
Number of pages
142

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL21036912M
ISBN 10
1560255706
LCCN
2003063377
OCLC/WorldCat
53331700
LibraryThing
1291347
Goodreads
113291

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL3420002W

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ON MY father's side, according to my family belief, I am related to Cotton Mather; on my mother's side to Roger Williams.
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