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Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American literature /

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 enthu...

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Main Author:	Herd, David
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Enthusiasm in literature. American literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. Literature: history and criticism. Literature and literary studies. Enthousiasme dans la litterature. American literature > History and criticism. Essais. Essays. Criticism, interpretation, etc. essays. Essay Electronic books.
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