MYTHS OF MODERN INDIVIDUALISM
Written by Ian Watt
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 1996
ISBN: 0521480116
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- LITERARY CRITICISM
MYTHS OF MODERN INDIVIDUALISM
Written by Ian Watt.
Stock no. 814180
1st.
1996.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.
Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe. A critical account - historical, cultural, moral and aesthetic - of how four great Western myths have insinuated themselves into the actualities of modern culture. B/w illustrations. 293 pages includes index. ISBN: 0521480116. Book: name in ink to front endpaper.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I: THREE RENAISSANCE MYTHS
- 1 From George Faust to Faustbuch
- 2 The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
- 3 Don Quixote of La Mancha
- 4 El Burlador and Don Juan
- 5 Renaissance Individualism and the Counter-Reformation
- PART II: FROM PURITAN ETHIC TO ROMANTIC APOTHEOSIS
- 6 Robinson Crusoe
- 7 Crusoe, Ideology, and Theory
- 8 Romantic Apotheosis of Renaissance Myths
- 9 Myth and Individualism
- CODA: THOUGHTS ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
- Michel Tournier's Friday
- Some Notes on the present
- Appendix
- Index