The Pragmatist Turn : Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature /

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In The Pragmatist Turn, renowned scholar Giles Gunn offers a new critical history on the ways in which seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of the American literary canon. Engaging with the work of authors ranging from Melville and Douglass t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gunn, Giles B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religion in literature.
Religion and literature.
Enlightenment > Influence.
American literature.
RELIGION > Philosophy.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Religion dans la litterature.
Siecle des Lumieres > Influence.
Religion et litterature > États-Unis.
Religion and literature > United States.
American literature > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The difficulty of beginnings
  • Puritan ascendance and decline
  • Enlightenment and a new age dawning
  • The pragmatist refiguration of American narratives
  • The Jamesian component
  • Religion and the Enlightenment under the sign of the modern and beyond.

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