Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance

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Indiana University Press, 1978 - Literary Criticism - 309 pages
There are perhaps as many definitions of myth as of romanticism, but a renewed interest in myth as "authentic tidings of invisible things" is one of the most commonly remarked characteristics of early nineteenth-century literature. American writers from Emerson to Melville were very well read in myth and in mythic theory and were highly conscious of myth as a subject of special interest to the age. Richardson shows how our major writers consciously understood and used myth. - Jacket flap.

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The Two Traditions
9
Parker and Alcott
34
Emerson
65
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