The Cambridge companion to "Robinson Crusoe" /
"An instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of D...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Robinson Crusoe and Daniel Defoe: the eighteenth century
- Genre, nature, Robinson Crusoe / J. Paul Hunter
- Robinson Crusoe and the form of the new novel / Rivka Swenson
- Robinson Crusoe and Defoe's career as a writer / Maximillian E. Novak
- Robinson Crusoe: housekeeping, gentility and property / Pat Rogers
- Robinson Crusoe and its sequels: the farther adventures and serious reflections / G.A. Starr
- Politics, history, and the Robinson Crusoe story / Rebecca Bullard
- Part II. Robinson Crusoe in the wider world
- Innovation and imitation in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade / Carl Fisher
- The Crusoe story: philosophical and psychological implications / Helen Thompson
- Robinson Crusoe and travel writing: the transatlantic world / Eve Tavor Bannet
- Robinson Crusoe and colonialism / Dennis Todd
- Part III. Robinson Crusoe over three hundred years
- The iconic Crusoe: illustrations and images of Robinson Crusoe / David Blewett
- Robinsonades for young people / Jill Campbell
- Anti-Crusoes, alternative Crusoes: revisions of the island story in the twentieth century / Ann Marie Fallon
- Robinson Crusoe in the screen age / Robert Mayer.