The American epic : transforming a genre, 1770-1860 / John P. McWilliams, Jr.
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
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Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Imitations: Homer's Tyrannous Eye
- 1. Invocations
- 2. Freedom's Heroes
- 3. Freedom's Fools
- 4. A White Achilles for the West?
- Part II. Transformations: The Epic In New Genres
- 5. Red Achilles, Red Satan
- 6. The Destroying Angel
- 7. Till a Better Epic Comes Along
- 8. "An Epic of Democracy?"
- Prospect.