Lisi Schoenbach is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Pragmatic Modernism is an impressive work of intellectual and literary history. It's clearly the product of deep reading and understanding and a real devotion to the ideas and thinkers it painstakingly explains and uses. It will strongly appeal to Americanists, modernists, and intellectual historians.

• Acknowledgments ; Series Editors' Foreword ; Introduction: Pragmatic Modernism 1 ; Part One Habit ; Chapter 1 Modernist Habit 19 ; Chapter 2 "Peaceful and Exciting": Stein's Dialectic of Habit ; Part Two Institutions ; Chapter 3 Jamesian Institutions ; Chapter 4. Prediction Theories: "The Path of the Law," The Wings of ; the Dove, and the Engagement with Temporality ; Chapter 5 A Jamesian State: The American Scene and "the Working of ; Democratic Institutions" ; Epilogue: Proustian Habit and Pragmatic Modernism ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Lisi Schoenbach is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Pragmatic Modernism is an impressive work of intellectual and literary history. It's clearly the product of deep reading and understanding and a real devotion to the ideas and thinkers it painstakingly explains and uses. It will strongly appeal to Americanists, modernists, and intellectual historians.

• Acknowledgments ; Series Editors' Foreword ; Introduction: Pragmatic Modernism 1 ; Part One Habit ; Chapter 1 Modernist Habit 19 ; Chapter 2 "Peaceful and Exciting": Stein's Dialectic of Habit ; Part Two Institutions ; Chapter 3 Jamesian Institutions ; Chapter 4. Prediction Theories: "The Path of the Law," The Wings of ; the Dove, and the Engagement with Temporality ; Chapter 5 A Jamesian State: The American Scene and "the Working of ; Democratic Institutions" ; Epilogue: Proustian Habit and Pragmatic Modernism ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index