Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism / by Gregory Phipps.
Phipps, Gregory, author.
2016
PN849.G74
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Title Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism / by Gregory Phipps.
Author Phipps, Gregory, author.
ISBN 9781137590237
1137590238
9781137594471
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59023-7
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1057/978-1-137-59023-7 doi
9781137594471
Call Number PN849.G74
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.41
Summary This book examines the interdisciplinary foundations of pragmatism from a literary perspective, tracing the characters and settings that populate the narratives of pragmatist thought in Henry James's work. Cultivated during a postwar era of industrial change and economic growth, pragmatism emerged in the late nineteenth century as the new shape of American intellectual identity. Charles Peirce, William James, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. were close friends who founded different branches of pragmatism while writing on a vast array of topics. Skeptical about philosophy, William James's brother, Henry, stood at the margins of this group, crafting his own version of pragmatism through his novels and short stories. Gregory Phipps argues that James's fiction weaves together the varied depictions of individuality, society, experience, and truth found in the works of Peirce, Holmes, and William James. By doing so, James brings to narrative life a defining moment in American intellectual and material history.
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Introduction: Henry James and Literary Pragmatism
"A Sort of Loosely Compacted Person": Charles Peirce's Protagonist and the Institutions of the American Community
Milly Theale and "The Practical Question of Life": Anticipating Doubts and Saving Beliefs in The Wings of the Dove
Cash Flow, Railways, and Gunshots
for the Good: William James and the Dialectics of Emotion and Action
Maggie Verver's "Vast Modern Machineries and Facilities": The Art of Love and the Passion of Evil in The Golden Bowl
"The Habit of the Public Mind" in the Battlefields and Marketplaces: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s Pragmatic Judge and His Fellow Combatants
"The State of the Account Between Society and Himself": Hyacinth Robinson's Soldier's Faith in The Princess Casamassima
Conclusion: The Cast of Characters in Literary Pragmatism
Bibliography.

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