Principle and propensity : experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman /
Scholars have for many years now relied upon the largely unexamined assumption that the nineteenth-century Bildungsroman in the Goethean tradition is somehow an intrinsically secular genre exclusive to Europe, incompatible with the literature of a democratically based culture. Combining intellectual...
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Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press
2014.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv6wgjtq |
Table of 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.