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Author:

Phillips, Christopher N.

Title:

Epic in American culture : settlement to reconstruction / Christopher N. Phillips.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xi, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Epic literature, American--History and criticism.
Literature and history--United States--History--18th century.
Literature and history--United States--History--19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : epic travels -- Prologue : reading epic -- Diffusions of epic form in early America -- Constitutional epic -- Epic on canvas -- Transcendentalism and the "new" epic 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 -- Epilogue : invisible epic.

ISBN:

142140527X (electronic)
9781421405278 (electronic)
1421404893 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
9781421404899 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)746154051

LCCN:

2011029762

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)