TY - BOOK AU - Phillips,Christopher N. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Epic in American culture: settlement to reconstruction AV - PS169.E63 P47 2012 U1 - 811/.03209 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Baltimore, Md. PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Epic literature, American KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and history KW - United States KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Columbian strains: the diffusion of epic form in early America -- Constitutional epic: old rules for an unprecedented genre -- Epic on canvas: the history of a critical term -- Transcendental epic; or, Importing the new traditions -- Tracking epic through the leather-stocking tales -- Lydia Sigourney and the Indian epic's work of mourning -- Longfellow's pantheon -- Melville's epic career; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3318623 ER -