Paranoia and Modernity Cervantes to Rousseau /
"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's Captain (in Th...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press
2006.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5qdg62 |
Table of Contents:
- Agent and other
- The responsible knight
- The knight errant
- Luther and the devil's world
- The terrors of reform
- The science of suspicion
- The demons of Descartes and Hobbes
- Pascal and power
- The art of polite disguise
- Swift and the satiric absolute
- A flight from humanity
- Invisible agents
- Rousseau's great plot
- An attempted escape
- Epilogue : paranoia and postmodernism.