Principle and propensity : experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman / Kelsey L. Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Kelsey L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Bildungsromans, English--History and criticism.

Bildungsromans, English.

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Bildungsromans, American--History and criticism.

Bildungsromans, American.

Bildungsromans--History and criticism.

Bildungsromans.

Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature.

Self-realization in literature.

Religion in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reimagining the coming-of-age literary tradition in the U.S. and U.K. within dynamic theological contexts.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611173659

1611173655

OCLC:

889812983