Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain: Meaning for Modernity

By Matthew Sterenberg

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134999992X
• ISBN13: 9781349999927
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"