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The pragmatist turn : religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature / Giles Gunn.
LIBRA PS166 .G84 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gunn, Giles B., author.
- Series:
- Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
- Studies in religion and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Religion and literature--United States.
- Religion and literature.
- United States.
- Enlightenment--Influence.
- Enlightenment.
- Religion in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 198 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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 to Dickinson and Morrison, he reveals the roots of a pragmatist consciousness at the heart of American culture. -- Back cover.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813940816
- 0813940818
- 9780813940809
- 081394080X
- OCLC:
- 988168754
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