Wild enlightenment : the borders of human identity in the eighteenth century
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.
Print Book, English, 2003
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780813921655, 0813921651
50809048
1. A Pygmy in London
2. The Feral Child at Court
3. The Travels of a Wild Youth
4. Unimaginable Communities
5. Walk Scotland and Carry a Big Stick
6. The End of Homo Ferus
"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize."