Title The last of the race : the growth of a myth from Milton to Darwin / Fiona J. Stafford

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations Contents 'Betwixt the World destroyed and World restored': Milton and the Universal Rack -- The First Last Man? Thomas Burnet and the Revolution in Time -- Towards the Last of the Race: Robinson Crusoe as Sole Survivor -- The Last Bards -- 'Shortliv'd as foliage is the race of man': The last of the Race and the Natural World -- Strength in what remains behind': Wordsworth and the Last of the Race -- 'As the last of my race I must wither away': The Sixth Lord Byron -- The Last Men -- New Ideas of Race: The Last of the Mohicans -- Edward Bulwer and the 'Terror of History' -- The last Chapter: After Darwin 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 Analysis English literature Influence of Myths Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-320) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject 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. Ethnology in literature. Survival in literature. Race in literature. Myth in literature. Literature and anthropology -- Great Britain -- History Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History End of the world in literature Ethnology in literature Fantasy literature, American Fantasy literature, English Indigenous peoples in literature Literature and anthropology Myth in literature Race in literature Survival in literature Engels. Letterkunde. Bedreigde soorten. Einde der tijden. United States Great Britain English-speaking countries Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 93040852 ISBN 9780191670718 0191670715

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