Joan Richardson

A Natural History of Pragmatism

The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein

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Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book, first published in 2006, is essential reading for all students and scholars of American literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 715g
• ISBN-13: 9780521837484
• ISBN-10: 0521837480
• Artikelnr.: 22569030

Autorenporträt

Joan Richardson is Professor of English, Comparative Literature and American Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

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.