Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism

1. Introduction: Henry James and Literary Pragmatism
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2. “A Sort of Loosely Compacted Person”: Charles Peirce’s Protagonist and the Institutions of the American Community
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3. Milly Theale and “The Practical Question of Life”: Anticipating Doubts and Saving Beliefs in The Wings of the Dove

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4. Cash Flow, Railways, and Gunshots: For the Good—William James and the Dialectics of Emotion and Action
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5. Maggie Verver’s “Vast Modern Machineries and Facilities”: The Art of Love and the Passion of Evil in The Golden Bowl

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6. “The Habit of the Public Mind” in the Battlefields and Marketplaces: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Pragmatic Judge and His Fellow Combatants
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7. “The State of the Account Between Society and Himself”: Hyacinth Robinson’s Soldier’s Faith in The Princess Casamassima

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8. Conclusion: The Cast of Characters in Literary Pragmatism
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Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Pragmatism, European Literature