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Author Kirby-Smith, H. T. (Henry Tompkins), 1938-

Title A philosophical novelist : George Santayana and the last puritan / H.T. Kirby-Smith
Published Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 208 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction: A Question of Style -- 2. Some Sources of Santayana's Philosophy -- 3. Spinoza -- 4. The Realm of Essence -- 5. The Realm of Matter -- 6. Detachment from Persons and Places and Things -- 7. In Search of Substance -- 8. The Realm of Spirit: The Last Puritan -- 9. Philosophy into Fiction -- 10. Santayana and His Critics -- App. An Unpublished Letter
Summary In the preface to the second edition of The Last Puritan, George Santayana wrote that he saw this "memoir in the form of a novel" as an exemplification of his own spirit. H.T. Kirby-Smith uses Santayana's 1936 novel The Last Puritan as both an occasion and a means for bringing into focus the complex relations between Santayana's life, his personality, and his philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index
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Subject Santayana, George, 1863-1952. Last puritan
SUBJECT Santayana, George. Last puritan. swd
Subject Philosophy in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Philosophy in literature
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585187010
9780585187013