Screen LibraryRobinson Crusoe : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism /
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.
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W. W. Norton & Company,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [1994] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Norton critical edition
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 436 pages : facsimile ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-436). |
| ISBN: |
9780393964523 0393964523 |
| Index Number: | PR3403 |
| CLC: | I561.44 |
| Call Number: | I561.44/D314-19 |
| Contents: |
Text of Robinson Crusoe -- Contexts. Contemporary accounts of marooned men. Rescue of a "Moskito Indian" marooned over three years on Juan Fernandez Island / Rescue of Alexander Selkirk from Juan Fernandez Island / Account of Alexander Selkirk's solitary life on Juan Fernandez Island for four years and four months / Autobiography: Robinson Crusoe as allegorical history / Puritan emblematic tradition / Eighteenth and nineteenth-century opinions. Life and strange surprizing adventures of Mr. D___DeF___ / On Defoe / Success of Robinson Crusoe / Treatise on natural education / In praise of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe / Fictitious history / Morality of Robinson Crusoe / Popularity of Robinson Crusoe / Crusoe as representative of humanity / On Defoe's novels / Crusoe's extraordinary energy and resource / Defoe's faculty of identification / Influence of Robinson Crusoe / Double character of Defoe's works / Inspiration from Robinson Crusoe / Want of emotion in Defoe / Crusoe and capitalism / Preeminence of Robinson Crusoe in childhood / Defoe's discovery of a new art form / Twentieth-century criticism. Robinson Crusoe / Robinson Crusoe as myth / Psychological structure of space with some remarks on Robinson Crusoe / Robinson Crusoe and the state of nature / On Joyce's admiration of Defoe / Daniel Defoe / Robinson Crusoe and the myth of mammon / "Occasion" of Robinson Crusoe / On Robinson Crusoe / Robinson Crusoe: the self as master / Myth and fiction in Robinson Crusoe / Novel and the rise of the penitentiary: Robinson Crusoe / Defoe and the naturalization of desire: Robinson Crusoe / Consumptive fictions: cannabalsim and Defoe / Daniel Defoe: a chronology. |