The primitive, the aesthetic, and the savage [electronic resource] : an Enlightenment problematic / Tony C. Brown.

By: Brown, Tony C, 1971-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012Description: xxi, 278 p. : illISBN: 9780816682683 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Primitivism in literature | Enlightenment | Aesthetics, European -- 18th century | Noble savage in literature | Literature and anthropology | Primitive societies in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809/.9145 LOC classification: PN56.P7 | B76 2012Online resources: Click to View
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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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.

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