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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Epic Travels

Prologue: Reading Epic

1    Diffusions of Epic Form in Early America

2    Constitutional Epic

3    Epic on Canvas

4    Transcendentalism and the “New” Epic Traditions

5    Tracking Epic through The Leatherstocking Tales

6    Lydia Sigourney and the Indian Epic’s Work of Mourning

7    Longfellow’s Pantheon

8    Melville’s Epic Career

Epilogue: Invisible Epic

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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