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literary pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses
American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something is, look to fruits rather than roots. But the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit, this book argues, of earlier literary experiments in American literature.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Method of Nature; The Unitarian Schism; The Uses of Natural History; The Miracles Controversy; Joyous Science; Amor fati (Beautiful Limits); 2. Nonreasoning Creatures; Antebellum AI; Peirce Machines; Jumping to Conclusions; Species and Genre; The Philosophy of Composition; 3. Unearthing Pierre; Moby-Dick Reviewed; Talking Pictures (Gothic Metaphysics); Chronometricals and Horologicals; The Refused Daguerreotype; Enceladus and Allegory; 4. The Ambassador Effect; The Genteel Tradition; Two Types of Radical Empiricism; The Woollett Scale
Two Types of Cosmopolitanism"Then There We Are!"; 5. Conclusion: Compatibilism, Genre, Allegory, Cosmopolitanism; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2013