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Epic in American culture [electronic resource] : settlement to reconstruction / Christopher N. Phillips.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Description: xi, 360 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 811/.03209 23
LOC classification:
  • PS169.E63 P47 2012
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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