Mythic thinking in twentieth-century britain: meaning for modernity
Auteur :
Sterenberg, M.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349999927
Date de publication :
31 oct. 2013
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.