Last of the Race - The Growth of a Myth From Milton to Darwin

Zusatztext Though Shelley is the focus of only one chapter of this wide-ranging study! it is a measure of the book's usefulness that every other chapter can be read as contextualizing and illuminating Shelley and other Romantics! including Wordsworth and Byron ... a work of cultural history! a study of the changing representations of a highly overdetermined motif. Zusammenfassung A wide-ranging study of the myth of "The Last of the Race" as it develops in a range of literary and non-literary texts from the late-17th to late-19th centuries, from the ancient myths of Noah and Deucalion to contemporary stories of nuclear holocaust.

Product details

• Authors: Fiona J. Stafford, Fiona J. (Fellow and Tutor in English Stafford, Stafford Fiona J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.1994
• EAN: 9780198112228
• ISBN: 978-0-19-811222-8
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800