| Description |
viii, 309 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 267-299. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
ch. 1. Two traditions -- ch. 2. Parker and Alcott: Higher criticism: Theodore parker and the mythical views of the Bible ; Affirmation of myth: Bronson Alcott and the orphic mode -- ch. 3. Emerson: Quality of mythic experience ; Verdict of reason ; Myth and history ; Metamorphosis, metaphor for organic process ; Heroic life and the uses of myth -- ch. 4. Thoreau: "To link my facts to fable" ; Lesson of Indic myth ; Nordic myth and the idea of the heroic ; Greek myth: Prometheus on Ktaadn ; "Walking": the call for myth ; Myth in Walden -- ch. 5. Whitman: Insufficiency of myth ; Myth, history, and Egypt ; From old myth to new religion: nationalism and prophecy -- ch. 6. Hawthorne: Hawthorne, Schlegel, and the modern uses of myth ; Greek myths for children: from classic to Gothic ; Transformations and metamorphoses -- ch. 7. Melville: Melville's reading in myth ; Psyche in Polynesia ; Mythic investiture in Moby-Dick ; Epilogue: Melville after Moby-Dick -- Appendix: From Alcott's Psyche an Evangele, ch. 1. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
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United States. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
1783-1865 |
| Subject |
Myth in literature.
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Myth in literature. |
| ISBN |
0253339650 |
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