Mania for freedom : American literatures of enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War /

In this study of literature in antebellum America, John Mac Kilgore argues that a distinct rhetorical tradition of enthusiasm emerged as a form of political dissent. This was literature written to confront normative values, to respond to critical injustice and to incite revolt, if not broad change....

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Main Author: Kilgore, John Mac (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
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505 0 |a Introduction: Enthusiasm, event, literature -- An answer to the question: "What is enthusiasm?" -- Rites of dissent: literatures of enthusiasm and the American Revolution -- Shaking hands with the prophet: the War of 1812 and Native American enthusiasms -- The revival of revolt: conjure, slave insurrection, and the novel of enthusiasm -- The free state of Whitman: John Brown, the Civil War, and the dis-memberment of enthusiasm in the 1860 Leaves of grass -- Epilogue: the tramp and strike question: terminal enthusiasms. 
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