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Epic in American Culture Settlement to Reconstruction / Christopher N. Phillips.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Christopher N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Literature and history--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and history.
- Literature and history--United States--History--18th century.
- Epic literature, American--History and criticism.
- Epic literature, American.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0527-X
- OCLC:
- 810039380
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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