The Pragmatist Turn

Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature

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Giles Gunn

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Series:

Studies in Religion and Culture

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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.

Author Biography:

Giles Gunn, author of Ideas to Live For: Toward a Global Ethics (Virginia), among other books, is Professor of English and of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Release date NZ

December 30th, 2017

Author

Giles Gunn

Series

Studies in Religion and Culture

Pages

200

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Undergraduate

ISBN-13

9780813940809

Product ID

26837226

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