TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gunn,Giles B.
TI  - The pragmatist turn: religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature 
T2  - Studies in religion and culture
SN  - 9780813940809
AV  - PS166 .P734 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Religion and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Influence
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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. --
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