Mania for Freedom : American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War /
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 fana...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2016.
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