Mapping Mythologies : Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History

Butler, Marilyn/ Glen, Heather (PRF)

Cambridge University Press（2015/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 237 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781107116382
• DDC分類 821.509

Full Description

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.

Contents

Preface Heather Glen; 1. Mapping mythologies; 2. Thomson and Akenside; 3. Collins and Gray; 4. The forgers: Macpherson and Chatterton; 5. Popular antiquities; 6. Blake; Coda.