Epic in American Culture : Settlement to Reconstruction /
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.