Robinson Crusoe After 300 Years

Author : Andreas K. E. Mueller,Glynis Ridley
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684482887

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Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years by Andreas K. E. Mueller,Glynis Ridley Pdf

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 : Emmanuelle Peraldo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527548404

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300 Years of Robinsonades by Emmanuelle Peraldo Pdf

Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) has had an enduring and widespread impact, becoming a universal myth. This volume offers various approaches to the rewriting of the desert(ed) island myth of the novel. Its originality comes from the time range covered, as its focus ranges from medieval proto-Robinsonades to twentieth-century cinematic adaptations. It begins with an exploration of Robinsonades written before Robinson Crusoe, prompting discussion about the label “Robinsonade” and why critics have seen Defoe’s narrative as the hypotext of the genre. Robinson Crusoe can only be understood in the context of the imperial expansion of Britain in the 18th century and the rise of capitalism, but Robinsonades adapt to the audiences they address. At the turn of the 19th century, despite the changing context and the increasingly unrealistic claim that one could be stranded on a desert island fertile enough for rebuilding a new life and civilization, the myth of Robinson resurfaced in R. L. Stevenson’s and Joseph Conrad’s fictions. The 19th century was also marked by industrial revolution, progress and scientism, and the authors who wrote Robinsonades at that period witnessed how those developments changed the world. The volume includes a discussion of Jules Verne’s work as a critical perspective on colonial narratives, and deals with transmedial and transgeneric approaches, analysing the bridges and comparisons between the depictions of such narratives in literature, cinema, and television. Finally, the volume proposes a topical approach to the genre by focusing on the link between literature and the environment, and how the Robinsonade can awaken people’s consciences and help make a difference in the world. Bearing in mind the idea that Robinsonades can be wake-up calls, the epilogue of this volume offers a very original comparison between the Robinsonade and the political situation in Great Britain regarding Europe.

Author : Emmanuelle Peraldo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Robinsonades
ISBN : 1527547248

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300 Years of Robinsonades by Emmanuelle Peraldo Pdf

Daniel Defoeâ (TM)s Robinson Crusoe (1719) has had an enduring and widespread impact, becoming a universal myth. This volume offers various approaches to the rewriting of the desert(ed) island myth of the novel. Its originality comes from the time range covered, as its focus ranges from medieval proto-Robinsonades to twentieth-century cinematic adaptations. It begins with an exploration of Robinsonades written before Robinson Crusoe, prompting discussion about the label â oeRobinsonadeâ and why critics have seen Defoeâ (TM)s narrative as the hypotext of the genre. Robinson Crusoe can only be understood in the context of the imperial expansion of Britain in the 18th century and the rise of capitalism, but Robinsonades adapt to the audiences they address. At the turn of the 19th century, despite the changing context and the increasingly unrealistic claim that one could be stranded on a desert island fertile enough for rebuilding a new life and civilization, the myth of Robinson resurfaced in R. L. Stevensonâ (TM)s and Joseph Conradâ (TM)s fictions. The 19th century was also marked by industrial revolution, progress and scientism, and the authors who wrote Robinsonades at that period witnessed how those developments changed the world. The volume includes a discussion of Jules Verneâ (TM)s work as a critical perspective on colonial narratives, and deals with transmedial and transgeneric approaches, analysing the bridges and comparisons between the depictions of such narratives in literature, cinema, and television. Finally, the volume proposes a topical approach to the genre by focusing on the link between literature and the environment, and how the Robinsonade can awaken peopleâ (TM)s consciences and help make a difference in the world. Bearing in mind the idea that Robinsonades can be wake-up calls, the epilogue of this volume offers a very original comparison between the Robinsonade and the political situation in Great Britain regarding Europe.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10753654

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The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Pdf

Author : Richard J. Jones
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781638040828

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Tobias Smollett After 300 Years: by Richard J. Jones Pdf

Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721–1771). Drawing together the work of an international group of scholars, with a variety of critical approaches, the book examines aspects of Smollett’s life, writing and reputation on the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798706528706

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Robinson Crusoe Illustrated by Daniel Defoe Pdf

"Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)-a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called ""Más a Tierra"", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966"

Author : Jakub Lipski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004692916

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Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth–Century English Robinsonade by Jakub Lipski Pdf

Exploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a crucial aspect of the genre’s ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of intriguing, yet often forgotten, novels: Peter Longueville’s The English Hermit (1727), Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins (1751) and The Female American (1767) by an anonymous author. The book shows that by rewriting the myths of the New Adam, the Androgyne and the Amazon, respectively, these novels went beyond, though not completely counter to, the politics of conquest and mastery that are typically associated with the Robinsonade. It argues that even if these narratives could still be read as colonial fantasies, they opened a space for more consistent rejections of the imperial agenda in contemporary castaway fiction.

Author : Jakub Lipski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000409789

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Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Jakub Lipski Pdf

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel adds to the dynamically developing subfield of reception studies within eighteenth-century studies. Lipski shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new contexts, while being also attentive to the possible ways in which these new lives may tell us more about the source texts. To this end the book offers five case studies of how canonical novels of the eighteenth century by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne came to be interpreted by readers from different historical moments. Lipski prioritises responses that may seem non-standard or even disconnected from the original, appreciating difference as a gateway to unobvious territories, as well as expressing doubts regarding readings that verge on misinterpretative appropriation. The material encompasses textual and visual testimonies of reading, including book illustration, prints and drawings, personal documents, reviews, literary texts and literary criticism. The case studies are arranged into three sections: visual transvaluations, reception in Poland and critical afterlives, and are concluded by a discussion of the most recent socio-political uses and revisions of eighteenth-century fiction in the Age of Trump (2016–2020).

Author : Henry Neville
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734046971

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The Isle of Pines (1668) by Henry Neville Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Isle of Pines (1668) by Henry Neville

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632061195

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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Pdf

Restless Classics presents the Three-Hundredth Anniversary Edition of Robinson Crusoe, the classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, with new illustrations by Eko and an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid that contextualizes the book for our globalized, postcolonial era. Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized that still resound today. As celebrated Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid writes in her bold new introduction, “The vivid, vibrant, subtle, important role of the tale of Robinson Crusoe, with his triumph of individual resilience and ingenuity wrapped up in his European, which is to say white, identity, has played in the long, uninterrupted literature of European conquest of the rest of the world must not be dismissed or ignored or silenced.”

Author : Jeremy Chow
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684484300

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Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities by Jeremy Chow Pdf

This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use.

Author : Daniel Defoe,Grandville
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020167483

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The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe,Grandville Pdf

One of the most enduring tales of survival and adventure in the English language, Robinson Crusoe remains a classic work of literature. This edition, with a memoir of the author and illustrated with over 300 engravings, brings the beloved story to life in a new and captivating way. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : SeaWolf Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194946069X

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Robinson Crusoe (Illustrated Classic) by Daniel Defoe Pdf

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000062687

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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Pdf

Almost 300 years ago this fascinating novel was published with probably the most long title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how he was at last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. For hundreds of years this book impresses the imagination by displaying of courage, ingenuity, vitality of the person, caught in such a binding that it is difficult to imagine. But still it is so exciting to imagine, while reading a book in a cozy room. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Kolomoets provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.

Author : Jeremy Chow
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813949529

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The Queerness of Water by Jeremy Chow Pdf

This highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that bodies of water play in reading these central texts. Chow navigates various representations and phases of water to magnify the element’s furtive yet pronounced effects on narrative, theory, and identity. Water, Chow reveals, is both a participant and a stage upon which bodily violation manifests. The sea, rivers, pools, streams, and glaciers all participate in a violent decolonialism that fractures, revises, and reshapes notions of colonial masculinity emerging throughout the long eighteenth century. Through an innovative series of intermezzi, The Queerness of Water also traces the afterlives of eighteenth-century literature in late twentienth- and twenty-first-century film, television, and other popular media, opening up conversations regarding canon, literary criticism, pedagogy, and climate change.