{"product_id":"the-american-aeneas-classical-origins-of-the-american-self-paperback","title":"The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn C. Shields\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Book\u003cp\u003e\"John Shields's book is a provocative challenge to the venerable Adamic myth so exhaustively deployed in examinations of early American literature and in American studies. Moreover, \u003ci\u003eThe American Aeneas\u003c\/i\u003e builds wonderfully on Shields's considerable work on Phillis Wheatley. \"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The American Aeneas should be of interest to classicists and American studies scholars alike.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New England Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Shields exposes a significant cultural blindness within American consciousness. Noting the biblical character Adam as an archetype who 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. Shields shows how Adam and Aeneas--Vergil's hero of the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e-- in crossing over to America from Europe, dynamically intermingled in the thought of the earliest American writers. Shields argues that uncovering and acknowledging the classical roots of our culture can allay the American fear of \"pastlessness\" that the long-standing emphasis on the Adamic myth has generated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn C. Shields is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003ePhillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn C. Shields is the editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley and the author of The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book award and an honorable mention in the Harry Levin Prize competition, sponsored by the American Comparative Literature Association. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 478\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56272755589425,"sku":"9781572333697","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/JZjwOtD_QZ9781572333697.webp?v=1789393071","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/the-american-aeneas-classical-origins-of-the-american-self-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}