A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.

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Waseda University, Japan

Matthew Sterenberg

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Matthew Sterenberg is an Assistant Professor at Waseda University's School of International Liberal Studies in Tokyo, Japan. There he teaches courses related to British history, European history, and historical theories and methods. His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of modern Britain.

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Book Title: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain
Book Subtitle: Meaning for Modernity
Authors: Matthew Sterenberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137354976
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35496-9Published: 31 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-99992-7Published: 31 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35497-6Published: 01 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 260
Topics: History of Philosophy, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Cultural History

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