Principle and propensity: experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American Bildungsroman
John Wesley's formative "spiritual empiricism" -- The paradox of experience in Jonathan Edwards -- Pietism and the "free movement" of self-cultivation: synthesis and transformation in Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship -- To enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia, South Carolina
University of South Carolina Press
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language
/ Bildungsroman
/ Self-realization (Motif)
/ Religion (Motif)
/ History 1800-1900
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| Further subjects: | B
Bildungsromans, American
History and criticism
B Religion in literature B American fiction 19th century History and criticism B Self-realization in literature B Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature B Bildungsromans History and criticism B Bildungsromans, English History and criticism B English fiction 19th century History and criticism |
| Summary: | John Wesley's formative "spiritual empiricism" -- The paradox of experience in Jonathan Edwards -- Pietism and the "free movement" of self-cultivation: synthesis and transformation in Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship -- To enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people: the affective bildung of Jane Eyre -- "Faith in the immanence of spirit": Arminian self-formation in David Copperfield -- Pierre, or Melville's anarchic Calvinist bildungsroman -- "An impulse more tender and more purely expectant": the ardent good faith of Isabel Archer |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [171] - 186) and index |
| ISBN: | 1611173647 |