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Principle and propensity : experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman /

Scholars have for many years now relied upon the largely unexamined assumption that the nineteenth-century Bildungsroman in the Goethean tradition is somehow an intrinsically secular genre exclusive to Europe, incompatible with the literature of a democratically based culture. Combining intellectual...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bennett, Kelsey L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • John Wesley's formative "spiritual empiricism"
  • The paradox of experience in Jonathan Edwards
  • Pietism and the "free movement" of self-cultivation: synthesis and transformation in Eilhelm Meister's apprenticeship
  • To enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people: the affective bildung of Jane Eyre
  • "Faith in the immanence of spirit": Arminian self-formation in David Copperfield
  • Pierre, or Melville's anarchic Calvinist bildungsroman
  • "An impulse more tender and more purely expectant": the ardent good faith of Isabel Archer.