From nature to experience : the American search for cultural authority /
Lundin, Roger.
Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Rowman & Littlefield,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-253) and index.
The preferences of eden -- Delivered to the dream : Emerson and the pathways of pragmatism -- Reading the blooming confusion : William James and the theology of experience -- Diminished things : literature and the disenchantment of the world -- Divining lives -- Intentional ironies -- The truth beyond method : fiction at the limits of experience.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
American literature
Experience in literature.
Christianity and literature
Pragmatism in literature.
Authority in literature.
Theology in literature.