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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主要作者: Farrell, John, 1957-
企業作者: Project Muse
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press 2006.
叢編:Book collections on Project MUSE.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5qdg62
書本目錄:
  • 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.