History and Myth: Essays on English Romantic Literature

by Stephen C. Behrendt and Jeffrey N Cox

The essays Stephen C. Behrendt assembled for this volume explore some of the ways in which English-Romantic poets and playwrights either mythologized history and its leading figures or, in some cases, deliberately rejected and subverted that myth-making activity. Taken together, the essays offer mutually revealing, mutually refining "lenses" upon one another and upon the literature they assess. In their diversity of viewpoints, they bear out the accuracy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814320104
• ISBN13: 9780814320105
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"