Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau

by John Farrell

Book Overview

"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's Captain (in The Father), Kafka's K., and Joyce's autobiographical hero Stephen Dedalus.... The all-encompassing conspiracy, very much in its original Rousseauvian cast, has become almost the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801444101
• ISBN13: 9780801444104
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.4"