The pragmatist turn : religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature / Giles...
The pragmatist turn : religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature / Giles...
The pragmatist turn : religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature / Giles Gunn.
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Publisher
Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
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G 2020/0486 , G 2019/2940
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 198 pages ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
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.
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Publisher
Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
Virginia
Date Published
2017.
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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...
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The pragmatist turn : religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature / Giles Gunn.
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Studies in religion and culture
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/0486 , G 2019/2940
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74VKaZakmERb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZakmERb
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ISBN
9780813940816 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
0813940818 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
9780813940809 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
081394080X (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
DDC
810.9382
MMS ID
991024290901302626
