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Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century Poetry and Cultural History by Marilyn Butler

Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century Poetry and Cultural History by Marilyn... Marilyn Butler, Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth- Century Poetry and Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 214 pp. Marilyn Butler died in 2014, leaving behind an uncompleted, ambitious work on Romantic mythologies. Her argument was that the Romantic imagination posed its characteristic challenge to the established order through the structures of myth in the widest sense — nonrational, “native,” and provincial, rather than clas- sical and metropolitan. In this work, she built on the insights of a group of critics (chiefly Northrop Frye, M. H. Abrams, and Harold Bloom) not oversympathetic to the prevailing ethos of an “Augustanizing” eighteenth century, whose luminar- ies were (and still are) Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Reynolds, and Burke, and whom critical taste tended especially to privilege in the middle years of the last century. Butler espoused in her own distinctive way an alternative pre- Romantic scenario but did not implement her mature Romantic project, except in a range of individual essays and, incidentally, in her early synoptic study Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1760 – 1830 (1981). What she more or less completed instead was a series of prolegomena on a non- Augustan set of writers, beginning in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century Poetry and Cultural History by Marilyn Butler

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Common Knowledge , Volume 24 (1) – Jan 1, 2018
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Marilyn Butler, Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth- Century Poetry and Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 214 pp. Marilyn Butler died in 2014, leaving behind an uncompleted, ambitious work on Romantic mythologies. Her argument was that the Romantic imagination posed its characteristic challenge to the established order through the structures of myth in the widest sense — nonrational, “native,” and provincial, rather than clas- sical and metropolitan. In this work, she built on the insights of a group of critics (chiefly Northrop Frye, M. H. Abrams, and Harold Bloom) not oversympathetic to the prevailing ethos of an “Augustanizing” eighteenth century, whose luminar- ies were (and still are) Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Reynolds, and Burke, and whom critical taste tended especially to privilege in the middle years of the last century. Butler espoused in her own distinctive way an alternative pre- Romantic scenario but did not implement her mature Romantic project, except in a range of individual essays and, incidentally, in her early synoptic study Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1760 – 1830 (1981). What she more or less completed instead was a series of prolegomena on a non- Augustan set of writers, beginning in

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