Transformations, ideology, and the real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives : finding "the thing itself" / Maximillian E. Novak

Author:: Novak, Maximillian E.
Published:: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2015]
Physical Description:: x, 239 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Defoe as an innovator of fictional form -- Picturing the thing itself, or not: Defoe, painting, prose fiction, and the arts of describing -- The unmentionable and the ineffable in Defoe's fiction -- Novel or fictional memoir: the scandalous publication of Robinson Crusoe -- Meatless fridays: cannibalism as theme and metaphor in Robinson Crusoe -- Edenic desires: Robinson Crusoe, the Robinsonade, and utopian forms -- Strangely surpriz'd by Robinson Crusoe: a response to David Fishelov's "Robinson Crusoe, 'the other,' and the poetics of surprise" -- "Looking with wonder upon the sea" : Defoe's maritime fictions, Robinson Crusoe, and "the curious age we live in" -- The cave and the grotto: imagined interiors and realist form in Robinson Crusoe -- "The sume of humane misery?": ambiguities of exile in Defoe's fiction -- Ideological tendencies in three crusoe narratives by British novelists during the period following the French Revolution: Charles Dibdin's Hannah Hewit, the demale Crusoe, Maria Edgeworth's Forester, and Frances Burney's The wanderer.

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9781611494853 (cloth : alk. paper)
1611494850 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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