Myths of Modern Individualism
Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe
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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.Table of contents:Preface; Introduction; Part I. Three Renaissance Myths: 1. From George Faust to Faustbuch; 2. The Tragicall History of...
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.
Table of 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; Michael Tournier's Friday; Some notes on the present; Appendix; Index.
Ian Watt examines the four myths of the modern world, Faust, Don Juan, Don Quixote, and Robinson Crusoe, and their resonance and influence on modern literature, myth and society.
Examines the four myths of the modern world, Faust, Don Juan, Don Quixote, and Robinson Crusoe, and their resonance and influence on modern literature, myth and society.
Table of 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; Michael Tournier's Friday; Some notes on the present; Appendix; Index.
Ian Watt examines the four myths of the modern world, Faust, Don Juan, Don Quixote, and Robinson Crusoe, and their resonance and influence on modern literature, myth and society.
Examines the four myths of the modern world, Faust, Don Juan, Don Quixote, and Robinson Crusoe, and their resonance and influence on modern literature, myth and society.
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