Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History / [electronic resource] Butler, Marilyn creator author. text enk 2015 monographic eng

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1 online resource (237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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, exploring how and why it developed, and the issues at stake. Her interest is not simply in a succession of great writers, but in the politics of a wider culture, in which writers, scholars, publishers, editors, booksellers, readers all play their parts. For more than thirty years, Marilyn Butler was a towering presence in eighteenth-century and romantic studies, and this major work is published for the first time. Marilyn Butler, Preface by Heather Glen. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Myth in literature PR555.M93 B88 2015 821/.50937 9781316337301 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316337301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316337301 UkCbUP 150112 20180107143409.0 CR9781316337301