Robinson Crusoe Examin'd and Criticis'd
Author : Charles Gildon
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Author : Charles Gildon
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Author : Lieve Spaas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349136778
Robinson Crusoe explores Defoe's story, the legend it captured, the universal desire which underlies the myth and a range of modern re-writings which reveal a continued fascination with the problematic character of this narrative. Whether envisaged as an heroic rejection of the old world order, a piece of pre-colonialist propaganda or a tale raising archetypal problems of 'otherness' and 'inequality', the mythic value of Crusoe has become a pretext over many centuries for an examination of some of the fundamental problems of existence. This collection of essays examines, from a wide range of critical and philosophical perspectives, the cultural manifestations of Robinson Crusoe in different centuries, in different media, in different genres.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684480965
Robinson Crusoe has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770482245
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous literary characters in history, and his story has spawned hundreds of retellings. Inspired by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who lived for several years on a Pacific island, the novel tells the story of Crusoe’s survival after shipwreck on an island, interaction with the mainland’s native inhabitants, and eventual rescue. Read variously as economic fable, religious allegory, or imperialist fantasy, Crusoe has never lost its appeal as one of the most compelling adventure stories of all time. In addition to an introduction and helpful notes, this Broadview Edition includes a wide range of appendices that situate Defoe’s 1719 novel amidst castaway narratives, economic treatises, reports of cannibalism, explorations of solitude, and Defoe’s own writings on slavery and the African trade. A final appendix presents images of Crusoe’s rescue of Friday from a dozen of the most significant illustrated editions of the novel published between 1719 and 1920.
Author : Daniel Defoe Defoe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684483271
Defoe’s The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was almost always published together with The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Only after 1950 was the first volume printed alone—a shorter work for some classes. But in addition to fulfilling the promise of the first volume, The Farther Adventures is an exciting adventure novel by itself. Crusoe returns to his island to learn about his colony, and then travels to Madagascar, India, and China before returning to England after some exciting encounters. Complete with an introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes, this is an edition like no other. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460404432
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous literary characters in history, and his story has spawned hundreds of retellings. Inspired by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who lived for several years on a Pacific island, the novel tells the story of Crusoe’s survival after shipwreck on an island, interaction with the mainland’s native inhabitants, and eventual rescue. Read variously as economic fable, religious allegory, or imperialist fantasy, Crusoe has never lost its appeal as one of the most compelling adventure stories of all time. In addition to an introduction and helpful notes, this Broadview Edition includes a wide range of appendices that situate Defoe’s 1719 novel amidst castaway narratives, economic treatises, reports of cannibalism, explorations of solitude, and Defoe’s own writings on slavery and the African trade. A final appendix presents images of Crusoe’s rescue of Friday from a dozen of the most significant illustrated editions of the novel published between 1719 and 1920.
Author : Henry Clinton Hutchins
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Patrick J. Keane
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Politics and literature
ISBN : 9780826209429
Part II argues that imagery and plot developments in The Ancient Mariner reflect political events between November 1797 and March 1798, the months when Coleridge was writing and revising his poem and contributing anti-Pittite verses and essays to the widely read opposition newspaper the Morning Post.
Author : Pat Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317687639
First published in 1979, this title presents the basic facts and the background information needed by a modern reader of Robinson Crusoe, as well as a careful exploration of the structure and style of the work itself. Pat Rogers pays particular attention to the book’s composition and publishing history, the critical history surrounding it from 1719 onwards, and the contemporary context of geographical discovery, colonialism and piracy, as well as more controversial areas of interpretation. A wide-ranging and practical reissue, this study will be of value to literature students with a particular interest in the critical interpretation of Robinson Crusoe, as well as the novel’s place in the context of Defoe’s career.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1684483328
Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period.