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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828069903321

Autore

Bennett Kelsey L.

Titolo

Principle and propensity : experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman / / Kelsey L. Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61117-365-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

823/.809354

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Bildungsromans, English - History and criticism

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism

Bildungsromans - History and criticism

Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature

Self-realization in literature

Religion in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Eilhelm 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.