Literary Criticism / European / General

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The Wild Man Within

The Wild Man Within

An Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism

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.

Ruins and Empire

Ruins and Empire

The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature

One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art.

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