Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists

by Richard M. Dorson

The word "folklore" was coined in 1846 by an English antiquary, William John Thoms, although Professor Dorson's intellectual history of the folklore movement shows that the study of folklore had its origins in an earlier period. Educated men and women in many fields, especially in Victorian times, succumbed to the fascination of noting curious tales and odd rituals both at home and abroad. The British Folklorists describes how the influence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226158675
• ISBN13: 9780226158679
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 761 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.3" x 10.0" x 13.5"