Wild men in the looking glass : the mythic origins of European otherness
Long before the age of exploration, wild men inhabited the European imagination. These fascinating, hairy creatures have a long history of representation in art, literature, and folklore, appearing among other guises as satyrs and fauns in ancient Greece, mythical forest - and mountain-dwellers in the Middle Ages, and Shakespeare's Caliban and Cervantes's Cardenio in the Renaissance. Wild folk also captured the attention of naturalists, who investigated homo ferus and homo sylvestris, and philosophers, who elaborated the image of the noble savage
Print Book, English, 1994
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1994
History
232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780472104772, 0472104772
30355330
1. The Agrestic Cradle
2. Barren Nature
3. The Soothsayer and the Saint in the Enchanted Forest
4. Ethnography on the Medieval Wild Man
5. The Epic of the Wild Man
6. The Science of the Sylphs
7. The Savage Savior and the Salvaged Savage