Enthusiast! [electronic resource] : essays on modern American literature / David Herd.

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 enthu...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author:	Herd, David
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. ©2007.
Subjects:	Enthusiasm in literature. American literature > History and criticism. American literature. Essays. Criticism, interpretation, etc.