The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770–1860 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 36) ISBN-13: 9780521373227
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The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770–1860 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 36) ISBN-13: 9780521373227 | 9780521373227, black & white illustrations, Book, Cambridge University Press, John P., McWilliams Jr | ISBN-10: 0521373220
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ISBN-13: 9780521373227
Binding: Hardcover
Author: McWilliams Jr, John P.
Details: This is the first thorough account of the many attempts during the eighteenth and nineteenth 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 news 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).
Release Date: 24-11-1989
Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.2 x 1.0 inches
Languages: English
Part Number: black & white illustrations
Edition: First Edition
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Number Of Pages: 296
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