In this Book
- The Noble Savage: Allegory of Freedom
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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, Italian Humanism, Shakespeare’s Tempest, writers of Spain’s Golden Age, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and the European philosophes.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Illustrations
- pp. xiii-xx
- Part I: Rise and Fall of the Noble Savage
- 2. Enlightenment and "Ilustración"
- pp. 53-58
- 3. The Noble Savage and the Iron Age
- pp. 59-66
- 4. The Holy Guaraní Republic
- pp. 67-80
- 5. The New Symbol
- pp. 81-84
- Part II: Reality, Myth and Allegory of the Noble Savage in the Eighteenth Century
- 8. Utopia as Anti-Climax
- pp. 107-112
- 10. The Noble Savage: Allegory of Freedom
- pp. 131-158
- Conclusion
- pp. 159-162
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 163-176
Additional Information
ISBN
9780889208476
Related ISBN(s)
9781554584581
MARC Record
OCLC
243569705
Pages
202
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1990