Modern Mythology
by Andrew Lang
This influential study of comparative mythology acquires the scientific debate that at the time raged about the origin of mythology. Is the myth a "disease of language," as Max Mueller claims, or, as Lang argues here, reflecting the spiritual needs of people? Lang makes a case for the anthropological study of mythology. The study of modern mythology is a fascinating study of the construction of myths very soon after the event. Andrew Lang was an important scientist in the folklore and mythology of his time.
