Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.