Essays on American Enthusiasm: from Herman Melville to James Schuyler

《论美国人的热情》是一本关于文化传播的书，在书中，“热情”被认为是文化传播中一个关键而又被忽视的因素。本书将探讨某些作家是如何承担起文化传播的责任的（文化的传播不仅是经济上的，而且是价值观的传播），展示这些作家是如何塑造形象、撰写专题、撰写论文以及以其他各种方式确保文化传播的。《论美国人的热情》将以热情作为对这些实践者的过度称呼，来探讨书籍是如何以及为什么被传承下去的。

Essays on American Enthusiasm is a book about the transmission of culture, where 'enthusiasm' is taken to be a crucial and overlooked element of the transition. The book will consider how certain writers have taken responsibility of the circulation of culture (where circulation is construed not simply economically but as a ventilation of values), showing how the writers in question figure, feature, and treatise and in various other ways ensure such transmission. Taking enthusiasm as an over - arching term for these practised, Essays on American Enthusiasm will consider how and why books are passed on.