Enthusiast!
Essays on Modern American Literature
Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts.Complaining that his age was 'retrospective', Emerson injected enthusiasm into American literature as a way of making it new. 'What,' he asked, 'is a man good for without enthusiasm? and what is enthusiasm but the daring of ruin for its object?' 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 e…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7190-7428-8
- EAN: 9780719074288
- Produktnummer: 23499961
- Verlag: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D0.0 cm 476 g
- Gewicht: 476
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
David Herd is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent
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