The Literary Impact of "The Golden Bough"

by John B. Vickery

Book Overview

Frazer, with Freud, Marx, and Jung, is one of the thinkers who have had a deep and pervasive influence on modern literature. One of the great nineteenth-century syntheses, The Golden Bough was the culmination of a century of investigations into myth and ritual. John Vickery locates The Golden Bough in the context of its age and shows how, by gathering up many strands of nineteenth-century thought, it embodied the dominant intellectual tradition shaping...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691062439
• ISBN13: 9780691062433
• Release Date: June 1973
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.