Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade.
"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...
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Lipski, Jakub. Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade. 1st ed. Boston : BRILL, 2024. ©2024. 1 online resource (119 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Mini-Monographs in Literary and Cultural Studies ; v.5 "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 is argued 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"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Castaway's Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives -- 2 Peter Longueville's The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam -- 3 Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation -- 4 The Female American (1767): a Failed Amazon -- Coda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade -- 1 The Elemental Body in Michel Tournier's Friday -- 2 Conquering the Body in Olga Tokarczuk's "The Island" -- 3 Re-reading the Amazonian Myth in J. M. Coetzee's Foe -- Bibliography -- Index. Robinsonades History and criticism. English fiction 18th century History and criticism. Literary criticism. lcgft 9789004690455 Mini-Monographs in Literary and Cultural Studies |
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Lipski, Jakub. Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade. Mini-Monographs in Literary and Cultural Studies ; Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Castaway's Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives -- 2 Peter Longueville's The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam -- 3 Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation -- 4 The Female American (1767): a Failed Amazon -- Coda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade -- 1 The Elemental Body in Michel Tournier's Friday -- 2 Conquering the Body in Olga Tokarczuk's "The Island" -- 3 Re-reading the Amazonian Myth in J. M. Coetzee's Foe -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Castaway's Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives -- 2 Peter Longueville's The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam -- 3 Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation -- 4 The Female American (1767): a Failed Amazon -- Coda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade -- 1 The Elemental Body in Michel Tournier's Friday -- 2 Conquering the Body in Olga Tokarczuk's "The Island" -- 3 Re-reading the Amazonian Myth in J. M. Coetzee's Foe -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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