Mapping mythologies : countercurrents in eighteenth-century British poetry and cultural history /

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 differi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Butler, Marilyn
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism. Myth in literature. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Literature and myth. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Table of 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.