The Noble Savage: Allegory of FreedomWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 30.04.1990 - 182 Seiten Stelio Cro’s revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the cultures of America’s original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and English sources, the author describes how the building materials for Rousseau’s allegory of the Noble Savage came from the early Spanish chroniclers of the discovery and conquest of America, the Jesuit Relations of the Paraguay Missions (a Utopia in its own right), the Essais of Montaigne, Italian Humanism, Shakespeare’s Tempest, writers of Spain’s Golden Age, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and the European philosophes. |
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... Jesuit Relations or the practice of the Reductions in Paraguay , for example , but it is , nonetheless , from just such attempts to integrate radically different societies and cultures that Rousseau derived the sources of the myth that ...
... Jesuit Reductions in Paraguay , the last successful attempt made to unify the soul of modern man under the government of a Christian Republic . In Part II , " Reality , Myth and Allegory of the Noble Savage in the Eighteenth Century ...
... Jesuit chroniclers , to Montesquieu , as he might have read them , preparing new materials for his decisive allegory . 5 Obviously the scope of this study is not to review the question of the superiority or inferiority of the American ...
... Jesuit Reductions in America and the Quijote in Spain requires a lengthy explanation . Much of the present book is conceived to give such an explanation . For now it is sufficient to say that , after the failure in Spain of Las Casas ...
... Jesuit missionaries who succeeded in putting into practice their theories . The Jesuit contribution to this myth is fundamental , and its chronology overlaps that of the previous study . Given the great influence that the Jesuit ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |