With the wind in our shrouds
Mary Beard, 26 July 1990
The Making of ‘The Golden Bough’: The Origin and Growth of an Argument
by Robert Fraser.
Macmillan, 240 pp., £35, July 1990,0 333 49631 0 Show More
by Robert Fraser.
Macmillan, 240 pp., £35, July 1990,
“... or sometimes distaste) by writers who do still matter to us – by Eliot, Joyce, Malinowski, Lawrence, Leach, Yeats. We see the book through their eyes, irrevocably distanced from any sense of direct excitement at Frazer’s text. Reminiscing in 1925 on her own generation’s first encounter with Frazerian anthropology, Jane ... ”