Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American Literature / David Herd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herd, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers â€" Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler â€" 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100119

ISBN:

9781526125118

OCLC:

1048738732

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access