Robinson Crusoe after 300 years

• Titel: Robinson Crusoe after 300 years
• Mitwirkende: Mueller, Andreas Karl Ewald [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Ridley, Glynis [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Andreas K.E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley
• Verlagsort: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: ix, 222 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Transits
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-286-3
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-287-0
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HK 1935
• K10plus-PPN: 1726208028

Abstract

Generic revisions. The martian : Crusoe at the final frontier / Glynis Ridley -- Robinson's transgender voyage, or, burlesquing Crusoe / Geoffrey Sill -- Animal Crusoes : anthropomorphism and identification in children's Robinsonades / Amy Hicks and Scott Pyrz -- Mind and matter. Defoe and Newton : modern matter / Laura Brown -- Crusoe's ecstasies : passivity, resignation, and tobacco rites / Daniel Yu -- Taken by storm : Robinson Crusoe and aqueous violence / Jeremy Chow -- Life gets tedious : Crusoe and the threat of boredom / Pat Rogers -- Character and form. Crusoe's rambling / Benjamin F. Pauley -- Crusoe's encounters with the world and the problem of justice in The farther adventures / Maximillian E. Novak -- "To us the mere name is enough" : Robinson Crusoe, myth, and iconicity / Andreas K. E. Mueller.

Abstract

"When Defoe published The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe in 1719, he could not have imagined that Crusoe, Friday, and a footprint in the sand would enjoy global recognition 300 years later. Why-and how-does Crusoe's story resonate today? There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe's creation, 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 there is still much more to say-the Crusoe myth is far from spent. This wide-ranging 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"--