The last of the race [electronic resource] : the growth of a myth from Milton to Darwin / Fiona J. Stafford

Author:: Stafford, Fiona J.
Published:: Oxford : Clarendon, 1994.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations

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Summary:

This is an innovative and wide-ranging study of the myth of 'The Last of the Race' as it develops in a range of literary and non-literary texts from the late seventeenth to late nineteenth centuries.

Subject(s):

Fantasy literature, English—History and criticism
Fantasy literature, American—History and criticism
Literature and anthropology—English-speaking countries
Extinction (Biology) in literature
Indigenous peoples in literature
End of the world in literature
Race in literature
Myth in literature

ISBN:

9780191670718 (ebook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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