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About this book
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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Gregory Phipps is an Independent Scholar based in Canada. His numerous articles have appeared in publications such as The Henry James Review, Textual Practice, Philosophy and Literature, and Literature/Film Quarterly.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism
Authors: Gregory Phipps
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59023-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59447-1Published: 06 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95532-9Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59023-7Published: 15 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 261
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Pragmatism, European Literature