Myths of Modern Individualism
Subtitle: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe (Canto original series)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521585644
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Literary Criticism; Europe; European - General; Gay & Lesbian; Literary Collections / Continental European; Literary Criticism & Collections / Gay & Lesbian; Literary Criticism-European - General; Literature, Comparative - Themes, motives
First sentence: Of our four myths, that of Faust is unique in one respect: It undoubtedly began with a real historical person.