The punitive tales were turned into popular secular myths. All four myths have been transformed, often by major writers (Rousseau, Goethe, Byron, Dostoevsky), and given a more universal application with a favorable view of individualism.
Robinson Crusoe (1719) is seen as representative of the new religious, economic, and social attitudes. 1620) presented unflattering portrayals of the three, whereas the Romantic period two centuries later re-created them as admirable and even heroic. He shows how the original versions of Faust (1587), Don Quixote (1605), and Don Juan (ca.
In this volume Ian Watt examines these four myths of the modern world, all created in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, as distinctive products of a historically new society. A century later Defoe's Robinson Crusoe embodies a more favorable consideration of the individual, but only if one refuses to take seriously Defoe's statement that Crusoe's isolation is punishment for disobeying his father. The three represent the positive drive of individualism, which brings down on itself repression by social disapproval. In their original versions, the ultimate fates of Faust, Don Quixote, and Don Juan reflect the anti-individualism of their time: Faust and Don Juan are punished in hellfire, and Don Quixote is mocked. History, literature, biography, archaeology, politics, religion, psychology, philosophy and science are all represented in Canto's specially selected list of tides, which now offers some of the best and most accessible of Cambridge publishing to a wider readership. Canto is an imprint offering a range of tides, classic and more recent, across a broad spectrum of subject areas and interests.
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