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. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. - xviii, 327 p. ; 23 cm. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 152 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index.

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.

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American literature--History and criticism.
Pragmatism in literature.
Natural history in literature.
Aesthetics, American.
English language--Rhetoric.--United States


United States--Intellectual life.

PS169.P68 / R53 2007

810.9384 RIC

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