Name: The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770 1860 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) (en Inglés)
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Author: John P. Jr. Mcwilliams
ISBN: 9780521107020

portada The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770 1860 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

John P. Jr. Mcwilliams

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

296

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0521107024

ISBN13

9780521107020

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Historia y crítica literaria

The American Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770 1860 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) (en Inglés)

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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 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 suggests that imaginative writers of the Romantic era were in fact far less proscriptive about the boundaries of literary genre than many a twentieth-century writer and scholar.