Epic in American Culture: Settlement to Reconstruction

Phillips, Christopher N.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Cream and color illus. boards, 360 pp., BW illus. VG. Item #162556
ISBN: 9781421404899

Considers epic literature as created by early American writers, including James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Sigourney, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Herman Melville. "Shows in often surprising ways how this exalted classical form proved as vital to American culture as it did to the great societies of the ancient world." (back cover).

OCLC: 793490838

Price: $29.97

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