Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Image of the Noble Savage in Literature | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Baudet, Henri. Paradise on Earth: Some Thoughts on European Images of Non-European Man. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965, 87p.

Provides commentary on the attitude of European and Western peoples toward non-Western cultures throughout the centuries.

Bissell, Benjamin. The American Indian in English Literature of the Eighteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925, 229p.

Overview of the treatment of Native Americans in English Literature, with an examination of the extent to which their existence was idealized.

De Lutri, Joseph R. “Montaigne on the Noble Savage: A Shift in Perspective.” French Review 49, no. 2 (December 1975): 206-11.

Evaluates Montaigne's account of the Noble Savage in the New World.

Fairchild, Hoxie Neale. “The Noble Savage: The Shaping of the Noble Savage Convention.” In The Noble Savage: A Study in...

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