Epic in American culture
Subtitle: settlement to reconstruction
By: Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781421404899; 9781421405278
Subjects: American Epic literature; History and criticism; Literature and history; National characteristics, American, in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Columbian strains: the diffusion of epic form in early America; title: Constitutional epic: old rules for an unprecedented genre; title: Epic on canvas: the history of a critical term; title: Transcendental epic; or, Importing the new traditions; title: Tracking epic through the leather-stocking tales; title: Lydia Sigourney and the Indian epic's work of mourning; title: Longfellow's pantheon; title: Melville's epic career.