Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain: Meaning for Modernity

Sterenberg, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-10-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137354969

DOI: 10.1057/9781137354976

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 260