Principle and propensity experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman

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

Author/creator	Bennett, Kelsey L.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
Description	195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	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.

Portion of title	Experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman
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 Wilhelm 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-186) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2013036699
ISBN	9781611173642 (hardbound)

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