Andrew Lang 
Modern Mythology (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This influential 1897 work on comparative mythology takes on a scholarly controversy that raged at the time over the origin of mythology. Is myth “a disease of language, ” as Max Müller claimed, or does it, as the Lang argues here, reflect the spiritual needs of humans? Lang makes the case for an anthropological study of mythology.

Circa l’autore

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scotsman, best known as the compiler of the dozen “colored”
Fairy Books. A poet, novelist, literary critic, anthropologist, and historian, Lang was also a founder of psychical research. His books include
The Princess Nobody (1884)
, Ballads and Verses Vain (1884)
, Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
, In the Wrong Paradise (1886)
, The Mark of Cain (1886), and many more.