06749cam a2200853Ki 4500 ocn889812983 OCoLC 20200709060113.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 140902s2014 scu ob s001 0 eng d 2013036699 N$T eng rda pn N$T IDEBK P@U E7B YDXCP OCLCF EBLCP OCLCQ OCLCO OCL BIBBD OCLCQ AGLDB MOR PIFAG ZCU MERUC OCLCQ COO U3W BUF STF OCLCQ VTS ICG INT VT2 JSTOR 961536030 962611416 1055394820 9781611173659 (electronic bk.) 1611173655 (electronic bk.) 9781611173642 1611173647 750180 (N$T) (OCoLC)889812983 (OCoLC)961536030 (OCoLC)962611416 (OCoLC)1055394820 22573/ctv6vtf11 JSTOR e-uk-en n-us--- PR868.B52 P75 2014eb LIT 004120 bisacsh LIT 000000 bisacsh LIT 020000 bisacsh 823/.809354 23 MAIN Bennett, Kelsey L. Principle and propensity : experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman / Kelsey L. Bennett. Experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Print version record. 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 history with genre criticism, Principle and Propensity provides a critical reassessment of the bildungsroman, beginning with its largely overlooked theological premises: Bildung as formation of the self in the image of God. Kelsey L. Bennett examines the dynamic differences, tensions, and possibilities that arise as interest in spiritual growth, or self-formation, collides with the democratic/quasi-democratic culture in the nineteenth-century English and American bildungsroman. Bennett reexamines two long-held beliefs about the nineteenth-century bildungsroman: that it is based primarily on secular individual growth and that it is a genre exclusive to Europe. Beginning with the idea that interest in an individual's moral and psychological growth, or bildung, originated as a religious exercise in the context of Protestant theological traditions, she shows how these traditions found ways into the bildungsroman, the literary genre most closely concerned with the relationship between individual experience and self-formation. Part one of her study examines the attributes of parallel national traditions of spiritual self-formation as they convened under the auspices of the international revival movements: the Evangelical Revival, the Great Awakening, and the renewal of Pietism in Germany led respectively by John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, and Count Nikolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf. Part two explores the ways these traditions manifest themselves in the nineteenth-century bildungsroman in England and America through Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Pierre, and Portrait of a Lady. Though Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship], Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's prototype of the genre, was a library staple for most serious writers in nineteenth-century England and in America, Bennett shows that later writers such as Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, and Henry James also drew on their own religious traditions of self-formation, adding richness and distinction to the received genre. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 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. LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh American fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst00807048 Bildungsromans. fast (OCoLC)fst00831688 Bildungsromans, American. fast (OCoLC)fst01740790 Bildungsromans, English. fast (OCoLC)fst01740788 English fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst00910817 Religion in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01732559 Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01111499 Self-realization in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01111912 LITERARY CRITICISM / General bisacsh 1800-1899 fast Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Print version: Bennett, Kelsey L. 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