Principle and Propensity : Experience and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century British and American Bildungsroman /

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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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Main Author: Bennett, Kelsey L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Self-realization in literature.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature.
Religion in literature.
English fiction.
Bildungsromans, English.
Bildungsromans, American.
Bildungsromans.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Religion dans la litterature.
Realisation de soi dans la litterature.
Actualisation de soi dans la litterature.
Roman d'education americain > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman d'education anglais > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Bildungsromans > History and criticism.
Bildungsromans, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Bildungsromans, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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