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Mania for Freedom
John Mac Kilgore
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Description for Mania for Freedom
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSB; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 640.
“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, ... Read more
“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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469629711
SKU
V9781469629711
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About John Mac Kilgore
John Mac Kilgore is assistant professor of English at Florida State University.
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