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

248 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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, irrelevan...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...