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Autore |
Cro Stelio |
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The noble savage : allegory of freedom / / Stelio Cro |
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Waterloo, Ont. : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 1990 |
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©1990 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xx, 182 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Soggetti |
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Noble savage stereotype in literature |
Comparative literature - Themes, motives |
European literature - History and criticism |
French literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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