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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... observed at work in the successive books or versions of one book which he began to produce in 1831 , when Anna was born . The first manuscript was called " A Record of Observations on the Phenomena of Life as Developed in the History of ...
... observed at work in the successive books or versions of one book which he began to produce in 1831 , when Anna was born . The first manuscript was called " A Record of Observations on the Phenomena of Life as Developed in the History of ...
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... observation is enlarged , and as we learn to connect and arrange the phenomena of nature , we curtail our lists of miracles , the number of our super - natural agents . An eclipse is alarming to the vulgar , as denoting the wrath of ...
... observation is enlarged , and as we learn to connect and arrange the phenomena of nature , we curtail our lists of miracles , the number of our super - natural agents . An eclipse is alarming to the vulgar , as denoting the wrath of ...
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... observed that the “ identity of the Assyrian and Persian systems appears also to be pointed out by the uncertainty which exists as to the birthplace and epoch of Zoroaster . Ac- cording to the best authorities , he was a Chaldean , who ...
... observed that the “ identity of the Assyrian and Persian systems appears also to be pointed out by the uncertainty which exists as to the birthplace and epoch of Zoroaster . Ac- cording to the best authorities , he was a Chaldean , who ...
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