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A natural history of pragmatism : the fact of feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein /
Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
152. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through modernism, following its pointings into the present. Richardson combines strands from America's religious experience with scientific information to offer interpretations that break new ground in literary and cultural history. This book exemplifies the value of interdisciplinary approaches to producing literary criticism. In a series of highly original readings of Edwards, Emerson, William and Henry James, Stevens, and Stein, A Natural History of Pragmatism tracks the interplay of religious motive, scientific speculation, and literature in shaping an American aesthetic. Wide-ranging and bold, this groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of American literature. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 327 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511261114 051126111X 0511260547 9780511260544 0511257988 9780511257988 9780521837484 0521837480 9780521694506 0521694507 |