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041 0 $aEnglish
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072 7 $aDS$2bicssc
100 1 $aHerd, David$4auth
245 10 $aEnthusiast! : Essays on Modern American Literature
260 $aManchester$bManchester University Press$c20070901
506 0 $aOpen Access$2star$fUnrestricted online access
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.
536 $aKnowledge Unlatched
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546 $aEnglish
650 7 $aLiterature: history & criticism$2bicssc
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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856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31417$70$zOAPEN Library: description of the publication