The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage : An Enlightenment Problematic /

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Tony C. Brown examines "the inescapable yet infinitely troubling figure of the not-quite-nothing" in Enlightenment attempts to think about the aesthetic and the savage. The various texts Brown considers-including the writings of Addison, Rousseau, Kant, and Defoe-turn to exotic figures in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Tony C., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aesthetics, European.
Enlightenment.
Literature and anthropology.
Literature, Modern.
Noble savage stereotype in literature.
Primitive societies in literature.
Primitivism in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
Homme primitif dans la litterature.
Litterature et anthropologie.
Bon sauvage dans la litterature.
Esthetique europeenne > 18e siecle.
Siecle des Lumieres.
Primitivisme dans la litterature.
Litterature > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Primitive man stereotype in literature.
Aesthetics, European > 18th century.
Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: An enlightenment problematic
  • The primitive
  • The aesthetic
  • The savage
  • Joseph Addison's China
  • Kant's tattooed New Zealanders
  • Adding history to a footprint in Robinson Crusoe
  • Indian mounds in the end-of-the-line mode
  • Conclusion: ... as if Europe existed.

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