TY - BOOK AU - Bennett,Kelsey L. ED - Project Muse. TI - Principle and propensity: experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman SN - 9781611173659 AV - PR868.B52 P75 2014 U1 - 823/.809354 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Columbia, South Carolina PB - University of South Carolina Press KW - Religion in literature KW - Self-realization in literature KW - Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature KW - Bildungsromans KW - History and criticism KW - Bildungsromans, American KW - American fiction KW - 19th century KW - Bildungsromans, English KW - English fiction KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781611173659/ ER -