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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7190-9584-9
- EAN: 9780719095849
- Produktnummer: 15916517
- Verlag: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H15.8 cm x B23.5 cm x D1.2 cm 328 g
- Gewicht: 328
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Über den Autor
David Herd is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Kent
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