Myth and Literature in the American RenaissanceThere 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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... ages of the Grecian state , the wild and barbarous inhabitants ... wanted a mythology to lead them by Fear and Dread ( the only Holds to be taken of a rude Multitude ) into a feeling of natural causes , and their influence upon our ...
... ages of the Grecian state , the wild and barbarous inhabitants ... wanted a mythology to lead them by Fear and Dread ( the only Holds to be taken of a rude Multitude ) into a feeling of natural causes , and their influence upon our ...
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... Age , and the triumph of a Gothic Era in whose works the Idea of Christianity is expressed . In a classic or an ... Ages superseded Classic and Pagan antiquity to produce a novel that may fairly be called , in Lowell's phrase , " a ...
... Age , and the triumph of a Gothic Era in whose works the Idea of Christianity is expressed . In a classic or an ... Ages superseded Classic and Pagan antiquity to produce a novel that may fairly be called , in Lowell's phrase , " a ...
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... age , and quicken it with her own divine life . She transfers her titles through the genius of the ages assured that she shall abide in her works . And these she leaves for the good of the ages . Long hath she now been silent , her harp ...
... age , and quicken it with her own divine life . She transfers her titles through the genius of the ages assured that she shall abide in her works . And these she leaves for the good of the ages . Long hath she now been silent , her harp ...
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