The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

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Indiana University Press, 1972 - Literary Criticism - 564 pages

"... peerless... " --The Key Reporter

"... this book is a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." --Choice

"... so good as it stands... one should simply be happy to have it." --The Journal of the History of Ideas

"... an original, compendious, and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." --The American Scholar

"The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism; more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book that we need now." --Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, The University of Chicago

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Contents

Introduction
3
ANDREW RAMSAY 16861743
19
SAMUEL SHUCKFORD c 16941754
25
NICOLAS FRÉRET 16881749
96
THOMAS BLACKwell 17011757
99
WILLIAM WARBURTON 16981779
112
NOËL ANTOINE Pluche 16881761
118
PART TWO The Later Eighteenth Century
165
GERMAN ROMANTICISM AND MYTH
302
1845
341
F W J SCHELLING 17751854 315 German Romantic Mythology
349
NOVALIS 17721801 333 Wisdom of the Indians
357
English Romanticism and Myth
365
THOMAS KEIGHTLEY 17891872
443
DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS 1808
450
ARTHUR DE GOBINEAU 18161882
463

BARON DHOLBACH 17231789
177
ROBERT WOOD 1717?1771
191
PAUL MALLET 17301807
199
JACOB BRYANT 17151804
241
RICHARD PAYNe Knight 1750 Italy and India
270
FROM A Discourse on the Worship CHARLES DUPUIS 17421809
276
ANTOINE PERNETY 17161801
288
J W VON GOETHE 17491832 FROM A Vision of the Last
295
RICHARD WAGNER 18131883
469
Friends
475
FROM Comparative
483
HONORÉ DE BALZAC 17991850
496
CHARLES KINGSLEY 18191875
505
511 MYTH 16801860
528
R W EMERSON 18031882
555
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