«You saved her life and she adores you for it»: The female noble savage in the English melodrama of the 1860s
The origin of the «noble savage» dates back to 1672, when John Dryden identified in the uncivilised «savage» the qualities of purity and carelessness. Later, the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (1754) defined the noble savage as an innocent, uncorrupted being. Even though the noble savage h...
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Universidad de Extremadura
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Anuario de Estudios Filológicos |
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| Online Access: | https://publicaciones.unex.es/index.php/AEF/article/view/626 |