The Wild Man Within

An Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism

Edward Dudley, Maximillian E. Novak, Edward Dudley, Maximillian E. Novak

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780822975991
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

These essays trace the myth of the wild man from the Middle Ages to its disintegration into symbol in the periods following the discovery of America and encounter with real \u201cwild men.\u201d This is the first book to discuss the concept of wildness in the writings of the Enlightenment period in Western Europe and the first to attempt a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of primitivism, not only from a strict \u201chistory of ideas\u201d approach, but through discussions of individual works, both literary and political, and encompassing various subject matter from racism to the origins of language.Contributors: Richard Ashcraft; Ehrhard Bahr; John G. Burke; Earl Miner; Gary B. Nash; Stanley Robe; Geoffrey Symcox; Peter Thoralev; Hayden V. White, and the editors.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• The Froms of Wildness: Archaeology of an Idea
• Wild Men and Spain's Brave New World
• The Image of the Indian in the Sourthern Colonial Mind
• The Wild Man Through the Looking Glass
• The Wild Man Goes Baroque
• Leviathan Triumphant: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics
• The Wild Man Comes to Tea
• The Wild Man's Return: The Enclosed Vision of Rousseau's Discourses
• Papageno: The Unenlightened Wild Man in Eighteenth-Century Germany
• The Wild Man's Pedigree: Scientific Method and Racial Anthropology
• The Wild Man's Revenge
• Conclusion: Avatars of the Wid Man
• Biographical Notes
• Index