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Author Gunn, Giles B., author.

Title The pragmatist turn : religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature / Giles Gunn.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in religion and culture
Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 a pragmatist consciousness at the heart of American culture. -- Back cover.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Religion and literature -- United States.
Religion and literature.
United States.
Enlightenment -- Influence.
Enlightenment -- Influence.
Religion in literature.
Religion in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Gunn, Giles B. Pragmatist turn. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017 9780813940816 0813940818 (DLC) 2017025190 (OCoLC)988168754
ISBN 9780813940809 (electronic book)
081394080X (electronic book)
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0813940826 (electronic book)
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