Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Prologue: Casaubon's Dubious Bequest
- 2 The Key to All Mythologies
- 3 The Legacies of the Ancients in Enlightenment Mythography
- 4 The Obsessions of Jacob Bryant: Arkite Idolatry and the Quest for Troy
- 5 The Dispute of the Orient: Anglo-French Rivalries in an Age of Revolution
- 6 Fish-gods, Floods and Serpent-worship: From Apologetics to Anthropology
- 7 Epilogue: The Keys to All Mythology in 1872
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Prologue: Casaubon's Dubious Bequest
- 2 The Key to All Mythologies
- 3 The Legacies of the Ancients in Enlightenment Mythography
- 4 The Obsessions of Jacob Bryant: Arkite Idolatry and the Quest for Troy
- 5 The Dispute of the Orient: Anglo-French Rivalries in an Age of Revolution
- 6 Fish-gods, Floods and Serpent-worship: From Apologetics to Anthropology
- 7 Epilogue: The Keys to All Mythology in 1872
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- The World of Mr CasaubonBritain's Wars of Mythography, 1700–1870, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016