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Author:

Bennett, Kelsey L., author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

The University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

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.
American fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans, American.
Bildungsromans, English.
English fiction.
Religion in literature.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature.
Self-realization in literature.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1611173647 (hardbound : alk. paper)
9781611173642 (hardbound : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)867769698

LCCN:

2013036699

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)