| Description |
viii, 309 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 267-299. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| 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 mode -- ch. 3. Emerson: The quality of mythic experience ; The verdict of reason ; Myth and history ; Metamorphosis, metaphor for organic process ; The heroic life and the uses of myth -- ch. 4. Thoreau: "To link my facts to fable" ; The 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: The 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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United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
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Myth in literature.
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| ISBN |
0253339650 |
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