7. Wallace Stevens and the Pragmatist Imagination

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction: Life, Transition, the Energizing Spirit 1
7. 1. Divine Overflowings: Emerson's Pragmatic Idealism 17
8. 2. William James and the Metaphorics of Transition 45
9. 3. The Aesthetics of Pragmatism 67
10. 4. Santayana, Dewey, and the Politics of Transition 91
11. 5. Henry James and the Drama of Transition 117
12. 6. Gertrude Stein and the Movement of Words 145
13. 7. Wallace Stevens and the Pragmatist Imagination 167
14. Notes 199
15. Index 217