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Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History
Contributor(s): Butler, Marilyn (Author), Glen, Heather (Preface by)
ISBN: 1107116384     ISBN-13: 9781107116382
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $37.99  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
Dewey: 821.509
LCCN: 2015008919
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (0.90 lbs) 237 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
 
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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.