TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phillips,Christopher N.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Epic in American Culture: Settlement to Reconstruction 
SN  - 9781421405278
AV  - PS169.E63 P47 2011
U1  - 811/.03209 23
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature
KW  - Literature and history
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Epic literature, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
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; Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/13693/
ER  -