A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein Tapa dura - 2007

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.

Detalles

• Título A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein
• Autor Joan Richardson
• Encuadernación Tapa dura
• Edición 1st
• Páginas 346
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Cambridge University Press
• Fecha de publicación 2007-01-15
• Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
• ISBN 9780521837484 / 0521837480
• Peso 1.53 libras (0.69 kg)
• Dimensiones 8.91 x 6.25 x 1.01 pulgadas (22.63 x 15.88 x 2.57 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects American literature - History and criticism, United States - Intellectual life
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2006025226
• Dewey Decimal Code 810.938