Feminizing a Colonial Epic: On Spofford’s “Priscilla”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858) puts in dactylic hexameters a Romantic legend of the wilderness on unrequited love among the pilgrims set in Plymouth in 1620. In 1894, Harriet Prescott Spofford parodically replied to that colonial legend with a new love...
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European Association for American Studies
2019-10-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/14976 |