Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain is the first cultural
and intellectual history of myth as a mode of thought in modern
Britain. Focusing on the period 1900-1980, it examines how a
variety of thinkers and cultural groups used the concept of myth to
articulate their anxieties about modernity and seek meaning within
it. Mythic thinking was thus a profoundly modern response to what
W.H. Auden called 'the modern problem' - the erosion of traditional
meaning-creating structures and institutions. This book tells the
story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in
late-Victorian social anthropology to its cultural mainstreaming in
the postwar period. It is a story that reveals the persistence of
yearning for transcendent meaning in age that has often been
assumed by historians to be 'disenchanted' and thoroughly
secularized.
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