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John C. ShieldsPublication Details
Book1st edUniversity of Tennessee Press2001Availability
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- Virgil — Influence
- Virgil. — Aeneis
- American literature — Roman influences
- American literature — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 — History and criticism
- American literature — 19th century — History and criticism
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature
- National characteristics, American
- Classicism — United States
- United States — Civilization — Roman influences
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- "In The American Aeneas, John C. Shields exposes a significant cultural blindness within American consciousness. Noting that the biblical myth of Adam has long dominated ideas of what it means to be American, Shields argues that an equally important component of our nation’s cultural identity - a secular one deriving from the classical tradition - has been seriously neglected."– BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Introduction: The Quest for the American Aeneas
- Pt. I. Adam and Aeneas: 1500-1720. 1. Translatio Cultus. 2. Edward Taylor’s Classicism. 3. Cotton Mather’s Epic in Prose
- Pt. II. Adam Becomes Aeneas: 1720-1784. 4. Surge for Cultural Independence: The Flourishing of American Classicism. 5. George Washington and the Vergilian Moment. 6. The American Epic Writ Large: The Example of Phillis Wheatley
- Pt. III. Aeneas Becomes Adam: 1784 to the Present. 7. The Radical Shift in Discourse. 8. The Persistence of the American Aeneas in Hawthorne. 9. The Persistance of the American Aeneas in Melville
- Conclusion: America’s Classical Origins Besieged
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- 1572331321
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