The American Aeneas : classical origins of the American self / John C. Shields.
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
©2001.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the quest for the American Aeneas
- Translatio cultus
- Edward Taylor's classicism
- Cotton Mather's epic in prose
- Surge for cultural independence: the flourishing of American classicism
- George Washington and the Vergilian moment
- The American epic writ large: the example of Phillis Wheatley
- The radical shift in discourse
- The persistence of the American Aeneas in Hawthorne
- The persistence of the American Aeneas in Melville
- Conclusion: America's classical origins besieged
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.