Epic in American culture settlement to reconstruction /

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Main Author: Phillips, Christopher N.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
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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.