Epic in American Culture : Settlement to Reconstruction /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Phillips, Christopher N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and history > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and history > United States > History > 18th century.
Epic literature, American > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Columbian strains: the diffusion of epic form in early America
  • Constitutional epic: old rules for an unprecedented genre
  • Epic on canvas: the history of a critical term
  • Transcendental epic; or, Importing the new traditions
  • Tracking epic through the leather-stocking tales
  • Lydia Sigourney and the Indian epic's work of mourning
  • Longfellow's pantheon
  • Melville's epic career.

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