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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| Superior document: | Mini-Monographs in Literary and Cultural Studies ; v.5 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2024. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mini-Monographs in Literary and Cultural Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (119 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.