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Paperback Enthusiast!: Essays on Modern American Literature Book

ISBN: 0719095840

ISBN13: 9780719095849

Enthusiast!: Essays on Modern American Literature

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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,...

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