02916nam 2200661Ia 450 991015320890332120210601193721.00-88920-847-6(CKB)1000000000713647(EBL)685576(OCoLC)243569705(SSID)ssj0000282362(PQKBManifestationID)11233199(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282362(PQKBWorkID)10316967(PQKB)10851208(MiAaPQ)EBC685576(CaPaEBR)402614(CaBNvSL)rjv00101406(MiAaPQ)EBC3246303(MdBmJHUP)muse48029(Au-PeEL)EBL685576(CaPaEBR)ebr10147336(CaONFJC)MIL971962(EXLCZ)99100000000071364719890718d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe noble savage[electronic resource] allegory of freedom /Stelio CroWaterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc19901 online resource (205 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-55458-458-2 0-88920-983-9 Includes bibliography and index.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; IndexStelio 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, ItaliNoble savage stereotype in literatureComparative literatureThemes, motivesEuropean literatureHistory and criticismFrench literature18th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Noble savage stereotype in literature.Comparative literatureThemes, motives.European literatureHistory and criticism.French literatureHistory and criticism.809.933520397Cro Stelio241141MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910153208903321The noble savage2449748UNINA