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Enthusiast! - Essays on Modern American Literature (Paperback)
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Enthusiast! - Essays on Modern American Literature (Paperback)
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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, showing how
successive major writers - Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank
O'Hara and James Schuyler - have modernised 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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