The Pragmatist Turn Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature |
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| Author:
| Gunn, Giles |
| Series title: | Studies in Religion and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4080-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2017 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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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 Giles Gunn calls spiritual imaginaries.
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 Giles Gunn calls spiritual imaginaries.