TY - BOOK AU - Gunn,Giles B. TI - The pragmatist turn: religion, the Enlightenment, and the formation of American literature SN - 9780813940809 (cloth : acid-free paper) AV - PS166 .G84 2017 U1 - 810.9/382 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Religion and literature KW - United States KW - Enlightenment KW - Influence KW - Religion in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index; The difficulty of beginnings -- Puritan ascendance and decline -- Enlightenment and a new age dawning -- The pragmatist refiguration of American narratives -- The Jamesian component -- Religion and the Enlightenment under the sign of the modern and beyond ER -