TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butler,Marilyn
TI  - Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History 
SN  - 9781316337301 (ebook)
AV  - PR555.M93 B88 2015
U1  - 821/.50937 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Myth in literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316337301
ER  -