The Wild Man Within

The Wild Man Within
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9780822975991
ISBN-13 : 0822975998
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Book Synopsis The Wild Man Within by : Edward Dudley

Download or read book The Wild Man Within written by Edward Dudley and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 “wild men.” 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 “history of ideas” 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.


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