The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature (Studies in Religion and Culture)

In The Pragmatist Turn, renowned scholar Giles Gunn offers a new critical history on the ways in which seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of the American literary canon. Engaging with the work of authors ranging from Melville and Douglass to Dickinson and Morrison, he reveals the roots of a pragmatist consciousness at the heart of American culture. -- Back cover.

• | Author: Giles Gunn
• | Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: December 08, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 218 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 081394080X
• | ISBN-13: 9780813940809