A natural history of pragmatism : the fact of feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein / Joan Richardson.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 152.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 327 pages)Content type:- text
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- American literature -- History and criticism
- Pragmatism in literature
- Natural history in literature
- Aesthetics, American
- English language -- United States -- Rhetoric
- United States -- Intellectual life
- Pragmatisme dans la littérature
- Sciences naturelles dans la littérature
- Esthétique américaine
- Anglais (Langue) -- États-Unis -- Rhétorique
- États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- Aesthetics, American
- American literature
- English language -- Rhetoric
- Intellectual life
- Natural history in literature
- Pragmatism in literature
- United States
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- PS169.P68 R53 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index.
In Jonathan Edwards's room of the idea -- Emerson's moving pictures -- William James's feeling of if -- Henry James's more than rational distortion -- Wallace Stevens's radiant and productive atmosphere -- Gertrude Stein, James's melancthon/a.
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Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through modernism, following its pointings into the present. Richardson combines strands from America's religious experience with scientific information to offer interpretations that break new ground in literary and cultural history. This book exemplifies the value of interdisciplinary approaches to producing literary criticism. In a series of highly original readings of Edwards, Emerson, William and Henry James, Stevens, and Stein, A Natural History of Pragmatism tracks the interplay of religious motive, scientific speculation, and literature in shaping an American aesthetic. Wide-ranging and bold, this groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of American literature.
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