Mapping Mythologies : Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History
Overview
In this groundbreaking work of revisionary literary history, Marilyn Butler traces the imagining of alternative versions of the nation in eighteenth-century Britain, both in the works of a series of well-known poets (Akenside, Thomson, Gray, Collins, Chatterton, Macpherson, Blake) and in the differing accounts of the national culture offered by eighteenth-century antiquarians and literary historians. She charts the beginnings in eighteenth-century Britain of what is now called cultural history, exploring how and why it developed, and the issues at stake. Her interest is not simply in a succession of great writers, but in the politics of a wider culture, in which writers, scholars, publishers, editors, booksellers, readers all play their parts. For more than thirty years, Marilyn Butler was a towering presence in eighteenth-century and romantic studies, and this major work is published for the first time.
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- ISBN-13: 9781107116382
- ISBN-10: 1107116384
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: August 2015
- Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 237
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