Enthusiast!: Essays on Modern American Literature

by David Herd

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719095840
• ISBN13: 9780719095849
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"