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The American epic : transforming a genre, 1770-1860
- 作者： McWilliams, John P
- 其他題名：
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
- 出版： Cambridge [England] ;New York : Cambridge University Press
- 叢書名： Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
- 主題： Epic literature, American--History and criticism , American literature--History and criticism--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 , American literature--History and criticism--1783-1850 , United States--Intellectual life--18th century , United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
- ISBN： 0521373220 (hbk.): US$60.45
- 資料類型: 圖書
- 內容註: Bibliography: p. [243]-280
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- 系統號： 005202960 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
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 the many epic poems written during and after the American Revolution, McWilliams shows how and why the epic had to be transformed from imitative narrative poetry into the new, open genres of prose history (Irving, Prescott and Parkman), fictional romance (Cooper and Melville) and free verse (Whitman). Believing that reviews are an important and slighted agent of literary change, McWilliams has written his book in the form of chronological literary history. His book, however, is no march of dates within tired categories. The American Epic sugge