The World of Mr Casaubon

Britain's Wars of Mythography, 1700–1870

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Scotland) Kidd, Colin (University of St Andrews, Colin Kidd

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While the efforts of George Eliot's fictional Mr Casaubon to create a 'Key to All Mythologies' may seem fruitless and obscure, Colin Kidd's interdisciplinary study excavates Casaubon's hinterland and illuminates the fierce ideological war which raged over the use of pagan myths to defend Christianity from radical Enlightenment thought.