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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... whereas the greed of the Spaniards is well represented in the central drawing , the one that had the most lasting impression on the reader . PLATE 4. — This is Plate I of Theodore de Bry's America pars IX , Frankfurt , 1602. It shows ...
... whereas Bembo sees the natives of the New World through the myth of the golden age , Oviedo , still observant of Aristotelian schemes , considers them barbarians , a contraposition which is at the center of the polemic between Las Casas ...
... whereas in Spain the counter - reformist policies of the Inquisition left little room for anything but the irony of the Quijote . The contemporary flourishing of the Jesuit Reductions in America and the Quijote in Spain requires a ...
... whereas Rousseau was undoubtedly inspired by the American chroniclers , especially the Jesuit Relations and Charlevoix's Histoire de la Nouvelle France ( 1746 ) and Histoire du Paraguay ( 1757 ) , he conceived an altogether more ...
... whereas Cain's children were damned to be slaves . " 12 Another difference between Montaigne and Gómara is in the explanation of the origin of America . Gómara argues that the new lands are the Atlantis mentioned by Plato : " Thus there ...
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REALITY MYTH AND ALLEGORY OF THE NOBLE SAVAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 92 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |