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Daniel Silliman
Daniel Silliman is an instructor of American religion and culture at the University of Heidelberg, where he is writing his dissertation on representations of faith in evangelical fiction.
Elmer Gantry
In my copy of Elmer Gantry, one sentence is underlined six times: “He had, in fact, got everything from church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason.”
That sums up Sinclair Lewis’ 1927 satire of scandalous fundamentalist ministers pretty well. None of the underlinings are mine, though. I have a Kindle version of Elmer Gantry, so this is a “popular highlight,” a sentence noted by other readers, on other e-devices.
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