Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years

Published by Bucknell University Press 2021

Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years

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

In the series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850

https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482900

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About this book

There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontier myth, with Crusoe seen as an example of 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 the Crusoe myth is far from spent. This wideranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about this most familiar of works, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever before.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"[An]outstanding collection of essays that demonstrates the enduring significance of literature’s most famous castaway."

— Restoration Journal

"This rich, wide-ranging volume brings into view the kinds of concerns and contexts that have informed the reception of Robinson Crusoe itself as well as countless remediations: gender, individualism, imperialism; pantomime, cinema, animal stories for children; more variously, Newton, tobacco, the sequel, and Crusoeian iconicity. This collection is valuable both for its deepening contribution to Defoe studies and its broadening relevance to a larger conversation about the genres of the Robinsonade."

— Rivka Swenson, author of Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603-1832

"The editors have gathered a collection of excellent essays by eminent scholars on the continuing relevance and power after three hundred years of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Informative and provocative, these essays provide an essential testimonial to the cultural and philosophical implications of Defoe’s classic novel through those centuries into our own."

— John Richetti, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe

"A highly entertaining and enlightening collection of contemporary essays."

— The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
A Note on the Text Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Contributors Andreas Mueller and Glynis Ridley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE : Generic Revisions
1 The Martian: Crusoe at the Final Frontier Glynis Ridley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2 Robinson’s Transgender Voyage: or, Burlesquing Crusoe Geoffrey Sill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3 Animal Crusoes: Anthropomorphism and Identification in Children’s Robinsonades Amy Hicks and Scott Pyrz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
PART TWO : Mind and Matter
4 Defoe and Newton: Modern Matter Laura Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5 Crusoe’s Ecstasies: Passivity, Resignation, and Tobacco Rites Daniel Yu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
6 Taken by Storm: Robinson Crusoe and Aqueous Violence Jeremy Chow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
7 Life Gets Tedious: Crusoe and the Threat of Boredom Pat Rogers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
PART THREE : Character and Form
8 Crusoe’s Rambling Benjamin Pauley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
9 Crusoe’s Encounters with the World and the Problem of Justice in The Farther Adventures Maximillian Novak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
10 “To Us the Mere Name Is Enough”: Robinson Crusoe, Myth, and Iconicity Andreas Mueller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217

Language: English
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 234
Illustrations
- Other: 22 b-w images, 7 color images
Keywords: Crusoe; Defoe; castaway; myth; icon; Robinson Crusoe; 1650; 1850; Robinsonade; Transgender Voyage; Burlesquing Crusoe; Anthropomorphism; Identification in Children’s Robinsonades; Tobacco Rites; Children’s Robinsonades; 1719; desert island; animal castaways

eBook

Published: April 16, 2021
ISBN: 9781684482900