The primitive, the aesthetic, and the savage an Enlightenment problematic / [electronic resource] :
Tony C. Brown.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.
- xxi, 278 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780816682683 (electronic bk.)
Literature--History and criticism.--18th century Primitivism in literature. Enlightenment. Aesthetics, European--18th century. Noble savage in literature. Literature and anthropology. Primitive societies in literature.