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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Mapping Mythologies
• Subtitle: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History
• Author: Marilyn Butler, Heather Glen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 237
• EAN: 9781107116382
• ISBN: 1107116384
• ID: 09211329
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 482 g
• Dimensions: 162 × 237 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. August 2015

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