The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770 1860
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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John McWilliams's 1990 book was the first thorough account of the many attempts to fashion an epic literature (the anxiously anticipated 'American Epic') from a wide range of potentially heroic New World subjects. At the outset, McWilliams considers the many problems - cultural, political and literary' - of adapting Enlightenment views of republican progress to a genre that had traditionally celebrated the greatness of warriors. After a survey of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521373220
ISBN13:9780521373227
Release Date:November 1989
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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