Wild Enlightenment: The Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth Century - Hardcover

Richard Nash

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813921651 ISBN 13: 9780813921655

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2003

Synopsis

This work charts the travels of the figure of the wild man through the invented domain of the bourgeois public sphere. He is followed through the discursive networks of novels, broadsheets, pamphlets and advertisements and through fair booths, the Royal Society and Parliament.

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Review:

Wild Enlightenment is a stimulating and insightful work that opens up new avenues of understanding into the eighteenth century. While other authors have treated the general topic of the Enlightenment 'savage, ' Nash provides a provocative, capacious, and original framework for understanding the importance of this phenomenon.

--Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University

The critical thrust of Wild Enlightenment is historicist in the sense that it encourages us to understand the terms of early eighteenth-century debates before the consolidation of terminology (and thought) that we associate with Linnaeus.... [T]he very best of contemporary eighteenth-century scholarship.

--Eighteenth Century Fiction

About the Author:

Richard Nash, Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, is the author of John Craige's Mathematical Principles of Christian Theology.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0813921651
• ISBN 13: 9780813921655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216