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This wide-ranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about the 1719 publications
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever before.
Sommario
A Note on the Text
Introduction
Andreas K. E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley
PART ONE: Generic Revisions
1
The Martian: Crusoe at the Final Frontier
Glynis Ridley
2 Robinson’s Transgender Voyage: or, Burlesquing Crusoe
Geoffrey Sill
3 Animal Crusoes: Anthropomorphism and Identification in Children’s Robinsonades
Amy Hicks and Scott Pyrz
PART TWO: Mind and Matter
4 Defoe and Newton: Modern Matter
Laura Brown
5 Crusoe’s Ecstasies: Passivity, Resignation, and Tobacco Rites
Daniel Yu
6 Taken by Storm:
Robinson Crusoe and Aqueous Violence
Jeremy Chow
7 Life Gets Tedious: Crusoe and the Threat of Boredom
Pat Rogers
PART THREE: Character and Form
8 Crusoe’s Rambling
Benjamin F. Pauley
9 Crusoe’s Encounters with the World and the Problem of Justice in
The Farther Adventures Maximillian E. Novak
10 “To Us the Mere Name Is Enough”: Robinson Crusoe, Myth, and Iconicity
Andreas K. E. Mueller
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Info autore
ANDREAS K. MUELLER is a professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.
GLYNIS RIDLEY is a professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
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This wide-ranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about the 1719 publications The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever before.
