TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herd, David
AB  - This 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.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_628391
ID  - OAPEN ID: 628391
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 607895483
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - American Literature
KW  - Modern Poetry
KW  - Literacy Criticism
KW  - History
KW  - Henry David Thoreau
KW  - Herman Melville
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Moby-Dick
KW  - Quakers
KW  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
KW  - Walden
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f2dc0443-2b71-467c-81e6-de405fbab760/628391.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31417
PB  - Manchester University Press
PP  - Manchester
PY  - 2007-09-01
SN  - 9780719095849;9781526125118
TI  - Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American Literature
ER  - 
