The world of Mr Casaubon: Britain's wars of mythography, 1700-1870
The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of departure a fictional character - Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. The author of an unfinished 'Key to All Mythologies', Casaubon has become an icon of obscurantism, irrelevance and futility. Crossing conventional...
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| 語言: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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Ideas in context (115)
Year: 2017 |
| 版: | First paperback edition |
| 叢編: | Ideas in context
115 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Eliot, George 1819-1880, Middlemarch
/ 英語
/ 小說
/ 神話 (紋樣)
/ 歷史 1700-1870
B Eliot, George 1819-1880, Middlemarch B 英語 / 小說 / 神話 (紋樣) / 歷史 1700-1870 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KDE Anglican Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Eliot, George 1819-1880
B Mythology History 19th century B Mythology in literature History B Mythology B Eliot, George 1819-1880 Knowledge Mythology Eliot, George 1819-1880 Middlemarch (Eliot, George) 1700-1899 B Mythology in literature B Mythology History 18th century |
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| 總結: | The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of departure a fictional character - Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. The author of an unfinished 'Key to All Mythologies', Casaubon has become an icon of obscurantism, irrelevance and futility. Crossing conventional disciplinary boundaries, Colin Kidd excavates Casaubon's hinterland, and illuminates the fierce ideological war which raged over the use of pagan myths to defend Christianity from the existential threat posed by radical Enlightenment criticism. Notwithstanding Eliot's portrayal of Casaubon, Anglican mythographers were far from unworldly, and actively rebutted the radical freethinking associated with the Enlightenment and French Revolution. Orientalism was a major theatre in this ideological conflict, and mythography also played an indirect but influential role in framing the new science of anthropology. The World of Mr Casaubon is rich in interdisciplinary twists and ironies, and paints a vivid picture of the intellectual world of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1107608597 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781139226646 |