In their original versions, the ultimate fates of Faust, Don Quixote, and Don Juan reflect the anti-individuals of their time: Faust and Don Juan are punished in hellfire, and Don Quixote is mocked. A century later, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe embodies a more favourable consideration of the individual. Ian Watt examines these four myths of the modern world, all created in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, as distinctive products of a historically new society.
In their original versions, the ultimate fates of Faust, Don Quixote, and Don Juan reflect the anti-individuals of their time: Faust and Don Juan are punished in hellfire, and Don Quixote is mocked. A century later, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe embodies a more favourable consideration of the individual. Ian Watt examines these four myths of the modern world, all created in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, as distinctive products of a historically new society.
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 Michael Tournier’s Friday Some notes on the present Appendix Index.
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 Michael Tournier’s Friday Some notes on the present Appendix Index.
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