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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gunn, Giles B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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