Noble Savage
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term "noble savage" expresses the concept of the natural man, unencumbered by either civilization or divine revelation. Although the phrase noble savage first appeared in the seventeenth century in Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada (1672), it became identified with the idealized picture of "nature's gentleman", which was an aspect of eighteenth-century sentimentalism. As a derogatory rhetorical device, it only achieved prominence in 1851, when used sarcastically as the title for satirical essay by English novelist Charles Dickens, who…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term "noble savage" expresses the concept of the natural man, unencumbered by either civilization or divine revelation. Although the phrase noble savage first appeared in the seventeenth century in Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada (1672), it became identified with the idealized picture of "nature's gentleman", which was an aspect of eighteenth-century sentimentalism. As a derogatory rhetorical device, it only achieved prominence in 1851, when used sarcastically as the title for satirical essay by English novelist Charles Dickens, who wished to disassociate himself from eighteenth- (and early nineteenth-) century romantic primitivism.