Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850)

By: Laura Schafer Brown and Jeremy Chow and Amy Hicks and Scott Pyrz and Andreas K Mueller and Maximillian E. Novak and Benjamin Pauley and Glynis Ridley and Pat Rogers and Geoffrey Sill and Daniel Yu

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Synopsis: When The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe first published in 1719, Defoe could not have imagined that his protagonist would enjoy global recognition 300 years later. With no shortage of explanations for its longevity, Defoe’s tour de force has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontier myth, its hero viewed variously as the self-sufficient adventurer and the archetypal colonizer and capitalist. Defoe’s original has been reimagined multiple times in legions of Robinsonade or castaway stories, but there is still more to say—the Crusoe myth is far from spent. The contributors to this wide-ranging collection suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about this most familiar of works, asking us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe", more recognizable today than ever before.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781684482887
Related ISBNs:: 9781684482870, 9781684482863
Publisher:: Bucknell University Press
Date of Addition:: 04/16/21
Copyrighted By:: Bucknell University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Andreas K Mueller
Edited by:: Glynis Ridley