American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War
by
John Mac Kilgore
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841. While this statement may read like an innocuous truism today, the claim would have been controversial in the antebellum United States when enthusiasm was a hotly contested term associated with religious fanaticism...