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

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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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Main Author: Brown, Tony C., 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism.
Primitivism in literature.
Enlightenment.
Aesthetics, European > 18th century.
Noble savage stereotype in literature.
Literature and anthropology.
Primitive man stereotype in literature.
Aesthetics, European.
Literature, Modern.
Noble savage in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: PN56.P7 B76 2012eb
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