Enthusiast!: Essays on Modern American Literature

by David Herd

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0719095840

ISBN13:9780719095849

Release Date:June 2014

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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