Myths of Modern Individualism Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe

Name: Myths of Modern Individualism Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe
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ISBN: 9780521480116

ISBN-10: 0521480116

ISBN-13: 9780521480116

Edition: 1996

Authors: Ian Watt

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In Myths of Modern Individualism, the renowned critic Ian Watt treats Don Juan, Don Quixote, Faust, and Robinson Crusoe as "individualists," pursuing their own views of what they should be. The original Counter Reformation myths saw the individualism of Don Juan, Don Quixote, and Faust as a problem to be quelled by death or mockery. However, the Romantic period, a time more favorably disposed toward myth, saw their dissension not as unacceptable disorder, but rather as admirable and heroic behavior. This incisive study traces attitudes toward these figures and the Romantic product Robinson Crusoe from disapproval to awe to skepticism, examining them as icons of such problems as solitude,…

Book details

List price: $101.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/23/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 310
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320



Preface


Introduction



Three Renaissance Myths



From



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From Puritan Ethic to Romantic Apotheosis






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Coda: Thoughts on the Twentieth Century



Some notes on the present


Appendix


Index