God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945

by Claude Julien Rawson

Book Overview

We are obsessed with "barbarians." They are the "not us," who don't speak our language, or "any language," whom we despise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigor we aspire to, and who have an extraordinary influence on the comportment, and even modes of dress, of our civilized metropolitan lives; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198184255
• ISBN13: 9780198184256
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"