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dc.contributor.authorHerd, David
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-01 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-12 03:00:29
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:34:33Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:34:33Z
dc.date.issued2007-09-01
dc.identifier628391
dc.identifierOCN: 607895483en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31417
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.otherLiterature
dc.subject.otherLiterature
dc.subject.otherAmerican Literature
dc.subject.otherModern Poetry
dc.subject.otherLiteracy Criticism
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherHenry David Thoreau
dc.subject.otherHerman Melville
dc.subject.otherImmanuel Kant
dc.subject.otherMoby-Dick
dc.subject.otherQuakers
dc.subject.otherRalph Waldo Emerson
dc.subject.otherWalden
dc.titleEnthusiast!
dc.title.alternativeEssays on Modern American Literature
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/oapen_628391
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780719095849;9781526125118
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.place.publicationManchester
oapen.grant.number100119
oapen.grant.programKU Select 2016 Backlist Collection
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: American literature - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_literature; Henry David Thoreau - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau; Herman Melville - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville; Immanuel Kant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant; Moby-Dick - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick; Quakers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers; Ralph Waldo Emerson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson; Walden - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden
oapen.identifier.isbn9781526125118
grantor.number100119
oapen.identifier.ocn607895483


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