TY  - GEN
AU  - Herd,David
TI  - Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American Literature
SN  - oapen_628391
PY  - 2007///0901
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Literature: history & criticism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literature
KW  - American Literature
KW  - Modern Poetry
KW  - Literacy Criticism
KW  - History
KW  - Henry David Thoreau
KW  - Herman Melville
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Moby-Dick
KW  - Quakers
KW  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
KW  - Walden
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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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