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MYTHS OF MODERN INDIVIDUALISM

by Ian Watt

Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st. 1996

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.

Book: name in ink to front endpaper.

ISBN: 0521480116
Stock no. 814180

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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

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