The noble savage : allegory of freedom / Stelio Cro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cro, Stelio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noble savage stereotype in literature.

Comparative literature--Themes, motives.

Comparative literature.

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

French literature--18th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 182 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stelio Cro's revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the cultures of America's original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and English sources, the author describes how the building materials for Rousseau's allegory of the Noble Savage came from the early Spanish chroniclers of the discovery and conquest of America, the Jesuit Relations of the Paraguay Missions (a Utopia in its own right), the Essais of Montaigne, Itali

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction: The Roots of the Noble Savage; PART I: RISE AND FALL OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE; PART II: REALITY, MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9780889208476

0889208476

OCLC:

243569705