The last of the race : the growth of a myth from Milton to Darwin /

This is an innovative and wide-ranging study of the myth of 'The Last of the Race' as it develops in a range of literary and non-literary texts from the late seventeenth to late nineteenth centuries.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stafford, Fiona J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994.
Subjects:	Fantasy literature, English > History and criticism. Fantasy literature, American > History and criticism. Literature and anthropology > English-speaking countries. Extinction (Biology) in literature. Indigenous peoples in literature. End of the world in literature. Ethnology in literature. Survival in literature. Race in literature. Myth in literature. Literature and anthropology > Great Britain > History. Literature and anthropology > United States > History. Littérature fantastique anglaise > Histoire et critique. Littérature fantastique américaine > Histoire et critique. Littérature et anthropologie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire. Littérature et anthropologie > États-Unis > Histoire. Extinction (Biologie) dans la littérature. Autochtones dans la littérature. Fin du monde dans la littérature. Ethnologie dans la littérature. Survie dans la littérature. Race dans la littérature. Mythe dans la littérature. Littérature et anthropologie > Anglophonie. End of the world in literature Ethnology in literature Fantasy literature, American Fantasy literature, English Indigenous peoples in literature Literature and anthropology Myth in literature Race in literature Survival in literature United States Great Britain English-speaking countries Engels. Letterkunde. Bedreigde soorten. Einde der tijden. Aussterben Edler Wilder Englisch Geschichte Literatur Menschheit Naturvolk Untergang > Motiv Weltuntergang > Motiv Überleben Iwi taketake. Englisch. Geschichte 1650-1900 English literature > Influence of > Myths Electronic books. History Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

'Betwixt the World destroyed and World restored': Milton and the Universal Rack
The First Last Man? Thomas Burnet and the Revolution in Time
Towards the Last of the Race: Robinson Crusoe as Sole Survivor
The Last Bards
'Shortliv'd as foliage is the race of man': The last of the Race and the Natural World
Strength in what remains behind': Wordsworth and the Last of the Race
'As the last of my race I must wither away': The Sixth Lord Byron
The Last Men
New Ideas of Race: The Last of the Mohicans
Edward Bulwer and the 'Terror of History'
The last Chapter: After Darwin.