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1 online resource (212 pages) |
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BiblioLabs.
Books.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: a short essay on enthusiasm -- Sounding: Henry David Thoreau -- Ranting: Herman Melville -- Distributing: Ezra Pound -- Presenting: Marianne Moore -- Circulating: Frank O'Hara -- Relishing: James Schuyler -- Afterword: enthusiasm and audit. |
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| Summary |
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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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Enthusiasm in literature.
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Enthusiasm in literature. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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American Literature |
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History |
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Literacy Criticism |
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Literature |
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Modern Poetry |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Essays.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays.
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Knowledge Unlatched. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Herd, David. Enthusiast!. Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007 (DLC) 2009483382 (OCoLC)154789136 |
| ISBN |
1526126303 (electronic book) |
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9781526126306 (electronic book) |
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9781526125118 (electronic book) |
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1526125110 (electronic book) |
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9780719095849 |
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0719095840 |
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9780719074288 |
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0719074282 |
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