Book chapter
Robinson Crusoe and the "female goddesses of disorder"
Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man: A Construction and Deconstruction, pp.163-183
Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group
2011
Abstract
Economic man as masculine conquering hero is a fantasy of nineteenth-century industrialisation....His eighteenth-century predecessor was seen as on the whole a feminiseed, even an effeminate being, still wrestling with his own passions and hysterias and with interior and exterior forces let loose by his fantasies and appetites, and symbolised by such archetypically female goddesses of disorder as Fortune, Luxury, and most recently Credit herself.
(Pocock 1985: 114)
Details
- Title
- Robinson Crusoe and the "female goddesses of disorder"
- Authors/Creators
- C. Owen (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- U. Grapard (Editor)G. Hewitson (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man: A Construction and Deconstruction, pp.163-183
- Publisher
- Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group; Abingdon, Oxon
- Identifiers
- 991005541600607891
- Copyright
- 2011 Ulla Grapard and Gillian Hewitson
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Note
- Series title: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
- Publisher URL
- http://www.sponpress.com/books/details/9781138803015/
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