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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Laura Schafer,; Brown, Laura,; Chow, Jeremy,; Hicks, Amy,; Mueller, Andreas K E,; Mueller, Andreas,; Novak, Maximillian E.,; Novak, Maximillian,; Pauley, Benjamin,; Pyrz, Scott,; Ridley, Glynis,; Rogers, Pat,; Sill, Geoffrey,; Yu, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Mueller, Andreas K E,; Ridley, Glynis,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (218 p.) :; 22 b-w images, 7 color images

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Contributors -- PART ONE : Generic Revisions -- 1 The Martian: Crusoe at the Final Frontier -- 2 Robinson’s Transgender Voyage: or, Burlesquing Crusoe -- 3 Animal Crusoes: Anthropomorphism and Identification in Children’s Robinsonades -- PART TWO : Mind and Matter -- 4 Defoe and Newton: Modern Matter -- 5 Crusoe’s Ecstasies: Passivity, Resignation, and Tobacco Rites -- 6 Taken by Storm: Robinson Crusoe and Aqueous Violence -- 7 Life Gets Tedious: Crusoe and the Threat of Boredom -- PART THREE : Character and Form -- 8 Crusoe’s Rambling -- 9 Crusoe’s Encounters with the World and the Problem of Justice in The Farther Adventures -- 10 “To Us the Mere Name Is Enough”: Robinson Crusoe, Myth, and Iconicity -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index