The Resource The world of Mr Casaubon : Britain's wars of mythography, 1700-1870, Colin Kidd, (electronic resource)
The world of Mr Casaubon : Britain's wars of mythography, 1700-1870, Colin Kidd, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of departure a fictional character - Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. The author of an unfinished 'Key to All Mythologies', Casaubon has become an icon of obscurantism, irrelevance and futility. Crossing conventional disciplinary boundaries, Colin Kidd excavates Casaubon's hinterland, and illuminates the fierce ideological war which raged over the use of pagan myths to defend Christianity from the existential threat posed by radical Enlightenment criticism. Notwithstanding Eliot's portrayal of Casaubon, Anglican mythographers were far from unworldly, and actively rebutted the radical freethinking associated with the Enlightenment and French Revolution. Orientalism was a major theatre in this ideological conflict, and mythography also played an indirect but influential role in framing the new science of anthropology. The World of Mr Casaubon is rich in interdisciplinary twists and ironies, and paints a vivid picture of the intellectual world of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.--
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- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 232 pages)
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- 9781139226646
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- The world of Mr Casaubon : Britain's wars of mythography, 1700-1870
- Title
- The world of Mr Casaubon
- Title remainder
- Britain's wars of mythography, 1700-1870
- Statement of responsibility
- Colin Kidd
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of departure a fictional character - Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. The author of an unfinished 'Key to All Mythologies', Casaubon has become an icon of obscurantism, irrelevance and futility. Crossing conventional disciplinary boundaries, Colin Kidd excavates Casaubon's hinterland, and illuminates the fierce ideological war which raged over the use of pagan myths to defend Christianity from the existential threat posed by radical Enlightenment criticism. Notwithstanding Eliot's portrayal of Casaubon, Anglican mythographers were far from unworldly, and actively rebutted the radical freethinking associated with the Enlightenment and French Revolution. Orientalism was a major theatre in this ideological conflict, and mythography also played an indirect but influential role in framing the new science of anthropology. The World of Mr Casaubon is rich in interdisciplinary twists and ironies, and paints a vivid picture of the intellectual world of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.--
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- Kidd, Colin
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- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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- 115
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- Church of England
- Church of England
- Mythology
- Mythologists
- Orientalism
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
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- The world of Mr Casaubon : Britain's wars of mythography, 1700-1870, Colin Kidd, (electronic resource)
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- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 232 pages)
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- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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- 9781139226646
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- digital, PDF file(s).
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- (OCoLC)963672942
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- The world of Mr Casaubon : Britain's wars of mythography, 1700-1870, Colin Kidd, (electronic resource)
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- online resource
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- cr
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- CR9781139226646
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 232 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Isbn
- 9781139226646
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)963672942
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