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Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance by Richardson, Robert D - 1978
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Indiana University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1978. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book was formerly owned by the Men's Faculty Club, Indiana University, and bears a bookplate on the first contents page. No other defects in book or jacket, the latter now now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked, appears unread. . Examines the work of Theodore Parker, Bronson Alcott, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, and Melville to illuminate the use, tradition, and character of myth in nineteenth-century American literature. A beautiful copy. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 309 pages. G7 .
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- ISBN 10 0253339650
- ISBN 13 9780253339652
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date Published 1978
- Keywords Literary Analysis, Criticism, Myth, American Literature
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Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Binding tight.). Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; off-white dj with black lettering, mylar cover; vii, 309 pp. 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. Contents: ch. 1. The two traditions -- ch. 2. Parker and Alcott: The higher criticism: Theodore parker and the mythical views of the Bible ; The affirmation of myth: Bronson Alcott and the orphic…
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