Mania for Freedom
American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841. While this statement may read like an innocuous truism today, the claim would have been controversial in the antebellum United States when enthusiasm was a hotly contested term associated with religious fanaticism and poetic inspiration, revolutionary politics and imaginative excess. In analyzing the language of enthusiasm in philosophy, religion, politics, and literature, John Mac Kilgore uncovers a tradition of enthusiasm linked to a politics of emancipation. The dissenting voices chronicled here fought against what they viewed as tyranny while using thei…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4696-2971-1
- EAN: 9781469629711
- Produktnummer: 19786493
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.2 cm 646 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 646
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