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The last of the race : the growth of a myth from Milton to Darwin
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stafford, Fiona J, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy literature, English--History and criticism--English-speaking countries.
- Fantasy literature, English.
- Myth in literature.
- Fantasy literature, American--History and criticism.
- Fantasy literature, American.
- Literature and anthropology.
- Extinction (Biology) in literature.
- Indigenous peoples in literature.
- End of the world in literature.
- Ethnology in literature.
- Survival in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- last of the race
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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