The World of Mr Casaubon: Britain's Wars of Mythography, 1700–1870 by Colin Kidd

The World of Mr Casaubon: Britain's Wars of Mythography, 1700–1870

Ideas in Context

Colin Kidd

238 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective medium-paced
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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...

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