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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Main Author: Daniela Daniele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2019-11-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/14976
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