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Posthumous scholarly study of how 18th-century British poets and antiquarians reimagined national myth and cultural history.
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Posthumous scholarly study of how 18th-century British poets and antiquarians reimagined national myth and cultural history.
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In this groundbreaking work of revisionary literary history, Marilyn Butler traces the imagining of alternative versions of the nation in eighteenth-century Britain, both in the works of a series of well-known poets (Akenside, Thomson, Gray, Collins, Chatterton, Macpherson, Blake) and in the differing accounts of the national culture offered by eighteenth-century antiquarians and literary historians. She charts the beginnings in eighteenth-century Britain of what is now called cultural history, ...
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Recurring discussion of myth, paganism, and religion in period poetry
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