Robinson Crusoe : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Daniel Defoe ; edited by Michael Shinagel, Harvard University.
Presents an annotated text of Daniel Defoe'searly eighteenth-century novel about an adventurous Englishman who becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island before being rescued, and includes a selection of contextual and critical essays.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
1994.
|
| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Norton critical edition.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Text of Robinson Crusoe
- Contexts. Contemporary accounts of marooned men. Rescue of a "Moskito Indian" marooned over three years on Juan Fernandez Island / William Dampier ; Rescue of Alexander Selkirk from Juan Fernandez Island / Edward Cooke ; Account of Alexander Selkirk's solitary life on Juan Fernandez Island for four years and four months / Woodes Rogers ; Autobiography: Robinson Crusoe as allegorical history / Daniel Defoe ; Puritan emblematic tradition / J. Paul Hunter.
- Eighteenth and nineteenth-century opinions. Life and strange surprizing adventures of Mr. D___DeF___ / Charles Gildon ; On Defoe / Alexander Pope ; Success of Robinson Crusoe / Theophilus Cibber ; Treatise on natural education / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; In praise of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe / Samuel Johnson ; Fictitious history / Hugh Blair ; Morality of Robinson Crusoe / James Beattie ; Popularity of Robinson Crusoe / George Chalmers ; On Defoe / John Ballantyne ; Crusoe as representative of humanity / Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; On Defoe's novels / Charles Lamb ; Crusoe's extraordinary energy and resource / William Wordsworth ; Defoe's faculty of identification / Edgar Allan Poe ; Influence of Robinson Crusoe / William Hazlitt ; Double character of Defoe's works / Thomas de Quincey ; Inspiration from Robinson Crusoe / George Borrow ; On Defoe / Thomas Babington Macaulay ; Want of emotion in Defoe / Charles Dickens ; Crusoe and capitalism / Karl Marx ; Preeminence of Robinson Crusoe in childhood / John Stuart Mill ; Defoe's discovery of a new art form / Leslie Stephen.
- Twentieth-century criticism. Robinson Crusoe / Virginia Woolf ; Robinson Crusoe as myth / Ian Watt ; Psychological structure of space with some remarks on Robinson Crusoe / Eric Berne ; Robinson Crusoe and the state of nature / Maximillian E. Novak ; On Joyce's admiration of Defoe / Frank Budgen ; Daniel Defoe / James Joyce ; Robinson Crusoe and the myth of mammon / George A. Starr ; "Occasion" of Robinson Crusoe / J. Paul Hunter ; On Robinson Crusoe / James Sutherland ; Robinson Crusoe: the self as master / John J. Richetti ; Myth and fiction in Robinson Crusoe / Leopold Damrosch, Jr. ; Novel and the rise of the penitentiary: Robinson Crusoe / John Bender ; Defoe and the naturalization of desire: Robinson Crusoe / Michael McKeon ; Consumptive fictions: cannabalsim and Defoe / Carol Houlihan Flynn
- Daniel Defoe: a chronology.