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The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature

The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature

Gunn, Giles

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Religion and Culture

Literary CriticismReligion General

ISBN10: 081394080X
ISBN13: 9780813940809
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Dec 8 2017
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.13
Language: English

In The Pragmatist Turn, renowned scholar of American literature and thought Giles Gunn offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their pragmatic refiguration less as systems of belief and thought than as frames of reflection and structures of feeling, what he calls spiritual imaginaries.Drawing on a large number of figures from earlier periods and examining how they influenced generations of writers from the nineteenth century into the early twenty-first --including Henry Adams, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, William James, Henry James, Kenneth Burke, and Toni Morrison--Gunn reveals how the idea or symbolic imaginary of America itself was drastically altered in the process.

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