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A natural history of pragmatism : = the fact of feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A natural history of pragmatism :/ Joan Richardson.
Reminder of title:	the fact of feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein /
Author:	Richardson, Joan,
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 327 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	American literature - History and criticism. -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485633
ISBN:	9780511485633 (ebook)

A natural history of pragmatism : = the fact of feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein /
Richardson, Joan,1946-

A natural history of pragmatism :the fact of feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein /Joan Richardson. - 1 online resource (xviii, 327 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;152. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511485633 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

561962
American literature
--History and criticism.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: PS169.P68 / R53 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/384

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