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100 1 _aHerd, David
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245 1 0 _aEnthusiast! : Essays on Modern American Literature
260 _aManchester
_bManchester University Press
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520 _aThis book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers – Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler – have modernized and re-modeled Emerson’s founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthusiast, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circulation of literature. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on. Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on each of Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O’Hara, and Schuyler. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. Lucidly written and combatively argued, the book will appeal to readers of American Literature or Modern Poetry, and to all those interested in the circulation of literary work.
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650 7 _aLiterature: history & criticism
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653 _aLiterature
653 _aLiterature
653 _aAmerican Literature
653 _aModern Poetry
653 _aLiteracy Criticism
653 _aHistory
653 _aHenry David Thoreau
653 _aHerman Melville
653 _aImmanuel Kant
653 _aMoby-Dick
653 _aQuakers
653 _aRalph Waldo Emerson
653 _aWalden
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