Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American Literature
Herd, David
Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American Literature - Manchester Manchester University Press 20070901
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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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English
oapen_628391 9780719095849;9781526125118
10.26530/oapen_628391 doi
Literature: history & criticism
Literature Literature American Literature Modern Poetry Literacy Criticism History Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville Immanuel Kant Moby-Dick Quakers Ralph Waldo Emerson Walden
Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American Literature - Manchester Manchester University Press 20070901
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
oapen_628391 9780719095849;9781526125118
10.26530/oapen_628391 doi
Literature: history & criticism
Literature Literature American Literature Modern Poetry Literacy Criticism History Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville Immanuel Kant Moby-Dick Quakers Ralph Waldo Emerson Walden