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100			_aRichardson, Joan
245			_aA natural history of pragmatism : the fact of feeling from jonathan edwards to gertrude stein
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c2007. _aCombridge :
300			_axviii, 327 p. ; _c23 cm.
365			_b36.00 _c£ _d118.80
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aJoan Richardson provides an 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.
650			_aAesthetics
650			_aAmerican Literature
650			_aCriticism
650			_aRhetoric
650			_aInterpretation
650			_aIntellectual Life
650			_aNatural History
650			_aPragmatism in Literature
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