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VG-(Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Binding tight. ) Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; off-white dj with black lettering, mylar cover; vii, 309 pp. There are perhaps as many definitions of myth as of romanticism, but a renewed interest in myth as "authentic tidings of invisible things" is one of the most commonly remarked characteristics of early nineteenth-century literature. American writers from Emerson to Melville were very well read in myth and in mythic theory and were highly conscious of myth as a subject of special interest to the age. Richardson shows how our major writers consciously understood and used myth. -Jacket flap. 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.
