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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester, UK ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
2007.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1526126303 9781526126306 9781526125118 1526125110 9780719095849 0719095840 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |