Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism

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Introduction: Henry James and Literary Pragmatism

Chapter 1: "A Sort of Loosely Compacted Person" Charles Peirce's Protagonist and the Institutions of the American Community

Chapter 2: Milly Theale and "The Practical Question of Life" Anticipating Doubts and Saving Beliefs in The Wings of the Dove

Chapter 3: Cash Flow, Railways, and Gunshots-for the Good: William James and the Dialectics of Emotion and Action

Chapter 4: Maggie Verver's "Vast Modern Machineries and Facilities" The Art of Love and the Passion of Evil in The Golden Bowl

Chapter 5: "The Habit of the Public Mind" in the Battlefields and Marketplaces: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s Pragmatic Judge and His Fellow Combatants

Chapter 6: "The State of the Account Between Society and Himself" Hyacinth Robinson's Soldier's Faith in The Princess Casamassima &nbsp.