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Mania for Freedom - American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Mania for Freedom - American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote
RalphWaldo Emerson in 1841. While this statement may read like an
innocuoustruism today, the claim would have been controversial in
the antebellumUnited States when enthusiasm was a hotly contested
term associated withreligious fanaticism and poetic inspiration,
revolutionary politics and imaginativeexcess. In analysing the
language of enthusiasm in philosophy, religion,politics, and
literature, John Mac Kilgore uncovers a tradition of
enthusiasmlinked to a politics of emancipation. The dissenting
voices chronicledhere fought against what they viewed as tyranny
while using their writings toforge international or
antinationalistic political affiliations. Pushing his analysis
across national boundaries, Kilgore contends thatAmerican
enthusiastic literature, unlike the era's concurrent
sentimentalcounterpart, stressed democratic resistance over
domestic reform as it navigatedthe global political sphere. By
analysing a range of canonical Americanauthors-including William
Apess, Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Beecher Stowe,and Walt
Whitman-Kilgore places their works in context with the causes,wars,
and revolutions that directly or indirectly engendered them. In
doingso, he makes a unique and compelling case for enthusiasm's
centrality in theshaping of American literary history.
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