The Pragmatist Turn : Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature
Saved in:
| Title: | The Pragmatist Turn : Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature |
|---|---|
| Description: | 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.As only a seasoned scholar can, Gunn here presents the history of American religion and literature in broad strokes necessary to reveal the seismic philosophical shifts that helped form the American canon. |
| Authors: | Giles Gunn |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Religion and literature--United States, American literature--History and criticism, Religion in literature, Enlightenment--Influence |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, RELIGION / Philosophy |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| FullText | Links: – Type: ebook-pdf – Type: ebook-epub Text: Availability: 0 |
|---|---|
| Header | DbId: nlebk DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) An: 1681797 RelevancyScore: 1077 AccessLevel: 6 PubType: eBook PubTypeId: ebook PreciseRelevancyScore: 1077.00524902344 |
| IllustrationInfo | |
| ImageInfo | – Size: thumb Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$1681797$PDF&s=r – Size: medium Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$1681797$PDF&s=d |
| Items | – Name: Title Label: Title Group: Ti Data: The Pragmatist Turn : Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature – Name: Abstract Label: Description Group: Ab Data: 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.As only a seasoned scholar can, Gunn here presents the history of American religion and literature in broad strokes necessary to reveal the seismic philosophical shifts that helped form the American canon. – Name: Author Label: Authors Group: Au Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Giles+Gunn%22">Giles Gunn</searchLink> – Name: TypePub Label: Resource Type Group: TypPub Data: eBook. – Name: Subject Label: Subjects Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Religion+and+literature--United+States%22">Religion and literature--United States</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22American+literature--History+and+criticism%22">American literature--History and criticism</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Religion+in+literature%22">Religion in literature</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Enlightenment--Influence%22">Enlightenment--Influence</searchLink> – Name: SubjectBISAC Label: Categories Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22LITERARY+CRITICISM+%2F+American+%2F+General%22">LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22RELIGION+%2F+Philosophy%22">RELIGION / Philosophy</searchLink> |
| PLink | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=1681797 |
| RecordInfo | BibRecord: BibEntity: Classifications: – Code: 810.9382 Scheme: ddc Type: prePub Languages: – Code: eng Text: English Subjects: – SubjectFull: Religion and literature--United States Type: general – SubjectFull: American literature--History and criticism Type: general – SubjectFull: Religion in literature Type: general – SubjectFull: Enlightenment--Influence Type: general Titles: – TitleFull: The Pragmatist Turn : Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature Type: main BibRelationships: HasContributorRelationships: – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Giles Gunn – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Giles Gunn IsPartOfRelationships: – BibEntity: Dates: – D: 01 M: 01 Type: published Y: 2017 – D: 11 M: 01 Type: profile Y: 2018 Identifiers: – Type: isbn-print Value: 9780813940809 – Type: isbn-electronic Value: 9780813940823 Titles: – TitleFull: The Pragmatist Turn : Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature Type: main |
| ResultId | 1 |
