The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860
... peerless... -- The Key Reporter... this bookis a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of theheadnotes should make it endure. -- Choice... so good as itstands... one should simply be happy to have it. -- The Journal of the History ofIdeas ... an original, compendious, and highly usefulcontribution to historical and mythographical scholarship. -- The AmericanScholarThe Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in thecontemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism;more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation ofnon-Western mythologies, f…
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Weitere Autoren: Richardson, Robert D.
- ISBN: 978-0-253-20188-1
- EAN: 9780253201881
- Produktnummer: 20571616
- Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B16.3 cm x D3.4 cm 871 g
- Gewicht: 871
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den Autor
Burton Feldman, Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Denver, has also taught at the University of Chicago and Hebrew University. He has contributed articles on 18th-19th century mythology to the Dictionary ofthe History of Ideas and The Encyclopedia of Religion, and (with Robert D. Richardson) has edited and introduced Myth and Romanticism, a 50-volume set of sources for English Romantic writers.Robert D. Richardson, Jr. is an independent scholar and literary biographer who currently divides his time between Middletown, Connecticut, Key West, and Cape Cod. He has taught at Harvard, the University of Denver, theUniversity of Colorado, Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, Sichuan University in China, Yale, and Wesleyan. He is author of Literature and Film, Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, and Emerson: The Mind on Fire. He edited (with Allen Mandelbaum) Three Centuries of American Poetry and is working on a biography of William James.
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