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

• Autore: Bennett Kelsey L.
• Pubblicazione: Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.809354
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Principle and propensity
• ISBN: 1-61117-365-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465467103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II