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The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770 1860
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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 36
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ISBN10: 0521373220
ISBN13: 9780521373227
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 24 1989
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780521373227
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 24 1989
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This is a thorough account of the many attempts during the 18th and 19th centuries to fashion a distinctly American epic literature from a wide range of potentially heroic New World subjects. McWilliams considers the cultural, political, and literary implications of adapting Enlightenment views of republican progress to a genre that had traditionally celebrated the greatness of warriors. He shows how and why the epic in America had to be transformed from imitative narrative poetry into the new genres of prose history (Irving, Prescott, Parkman), fictional romance (Cooper, Melville), and free verse (Whitman).
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