The pragmatist turn : religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature /
Gunn, Giles B.,
The pragmatist turn : religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature / Giles Gunn. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages) - Studies in religion and culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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. --
9780813940809 9780813940823
American literature--History and criticism.
Religion and literature--United States.
Enlightenment--Influence.
Religion in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS166 / .P734 2017
The pragmatist turn : religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature / Giles Gunn. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages) - Studies in religion and culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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. --
9780813940809 9780813940823
American literature--History and criticism.
Religion and literature--United States.
Enlightenment--Influence.
Religion in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS166 / .P734 2017