Published in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the Robinsonade’s endurance, analyzing its various literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context.
Published in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the Robinsonade’s endurance, analyzing its various literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context.
JAKUB LIPSKI is an associate professor of English at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He is the author of In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2014) and Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2018).
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Note on the Edition Used Foreword by Robert Mayer Introduction Jakub Lipski Part I: Exploring and Transcending the Genre 1. Mushrooms, Capers, and other sorts of Pickles”: Remaking Genre in Peter Longueville’s The Hermit (1727) Rivka Swenson 1. “If I had …”: Counterfactuals, Imaginary Realities and the Poetics of the Postmodern Robinsonade Patrick Gill Part II: National Contexts 1. Castaways and Colonialism: Dislocating Cultural Encounter in The Female American (1767) Przemys aw U ci ski 1. Setting the Scene for the Polish Robinsonade: The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (1776) by Ignacy Krasicki and the Early Reception of Robinson Crusoe in Poland, 1769-1775 Jakub Lipski 1. The Rise and Fall of Robinson Crusoe on the London Stage Frederick Burwick 1. Islands in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886): A Counter-Robinsonade Márta Pellérdi Part III: Ecocritical Readings 1. Stormy Weather and the Gentle Isle: Apprehending the Environment of Three Robinsonades Lora E. Geriguis 1. Robinson’s Becoming-Earth in Michel Tournier’s Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967) Krzysztof Skonieczny Part IV: The Robinsonade and the Present Condition 1. “The True State of Our Condition”: The Twenty-First-Century Worker as Castaway Jennifer Preston Wilson 1. Gilligan’s Wake, Gilligan’s Island, and Historiographizing American Popular Culture Ian Kinane Coda: Rewriting the Robinsonade Daniel Cook Acknowledgements Bibliography About the Contributors Index
Note on the Edition Used Foreword by Robert Mayer Introduction Jakub Lipski Part I: Exploring and Transcending the Genre 1. Mushrooms, Capers, and other sorts of Pickles”: Remaking Genre in Peter Longueville’s The Hermit (1727) Rivka Swenson 1. “If I had …”: Counterfactuals, Imaginary Realities and the Poetics of the Postmodern Robinsonade Patrick Gill Part II: National Contexts 1. Castaways and Colonialism: Dislocating Cultural Encounter in The Female American (1767) Przemys aw U ci ski 1. Setting the Scene for the Polish Robinsonade: The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (1776) by Ignacy Krasicki and the Early Reception of Robinson Crusoe in Poland, 1769-1775 Jakub Lipski 1. The Rise and Fall of Robinson Crusoe on the London Stage Frederick Burwick 1. Islands in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886): A Counter-Robinsonade Márta Pellérdi Part III: Ecocritical Readings 1. Stormy Weather and the Gentle Isle: Apprehending the Environment of Three Robinsonades Lora E. Geriguis 1. Robinson’s Becoming-Earth in Michel Tournier’s Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967) Krzysztof Skonieczny Part IV: The Robinsonade and the Present Condition 1. “The True State of Our Condition”: The Twenty-First-Century Worker as Castaway Jennifer Preston Wilson 1. Gilligan’s Wake, Gilligan’s Island, and Historiographizing American Popular Culture Ian Kinane Coda: Rewriting the Robinsonade Daniel Cook Acknowledgements Bibliography About the Contributors Index
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