Natural History of Pragmatism - The Fact of Feeling From Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein

Informationen zum Autor Joan Richardson is Professor of English, Comparative Literature and American Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Klappentext This groundbreaking book, first published in 2006, is essential reading for all students and scholars of American literature. Zusammenfassung Joan Richardson provides a compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism! in a series of highly original readings of Edwards! Emerson! William and Henry James! Stevens! and Stein. This groundbreaking book is essential reading for all students and scholars of American literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: frontier instances; 2. In Jonathan Edwards's room of the idea; 3. Emerson's moving pictures; 4. William James's feeling of if; 5. Henry James's more than rational distortion; 6. Wallace Stevens's radiant and productive atmosphere; 7. Gertrude Stein, James's Melancthon/a; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Richardson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521837484
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83748-4
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works