Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination: Essays in Affinity and Influence

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
The Face Beneath the Text: Sir James Frazer in his Time....Pages 1-17
Frazer and Scottish Romanticism: Scott, Stevenson and The Golden Bough....Pages 18-37
Speaking for the Others: Relativism and Authority in Victorian Anthropological Literature....Pages 38-60
The Birth of Humility: Frazer and Victorian Mythography....Pages 61-80
A Tour of Babel: Frazer and Theories of Language....Pages 81-100
Anthropology as Consolation: The Strange Case of Motherkin....Pages 101-120
Frazer, Yeats and the Reconsecration of Folklore....Pages 121-153
Killing the Da: Synge and The Golden Bough....Pages 154-171
Frazer, Conrad and the “Truth of Primitive Passion”....Pages 172-191
“What are the Roots that Clutch?”: Eliot’s The Waste Land and Frazer’s The Golden Bough....Pages 192-206
“Carnivals of Mass-Murder”: The Frazerian Origins of Wyndham Lewis’s The Childermass....Pages 207-231
“A Healed Whole Man”: Frazer, Lawrence and Blood-Consciousness....Pages 232-252
“For Gods are Kittle Cattle”: Frazer and John Buchan....Pages 253-269
“The Omnipotence of Thought”: Frazer, Freud and Post-Modernist Fiction....Pages 270-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-318