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The American Epic - Transforming a Genre, 1770-1860 (Hardcover, New): John P. McWilliams, Jr

The American Epic - Transforming a Genre, 1770-1860 (Hardcover, New)

John P. McWilliams, Jr

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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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).

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Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Release date:	November 1989
First published:	1989
Authors:	John P. McWilliams, Jr
Dimensions:	236 x 159 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-37322-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	0-521-37322-0
Barcode:	9780521373227

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The American Epic - Transforming a Genre, 1770-1860 (Hardcover, New)

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