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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 69–91.
Published: 01 January 2004
...DeeAnn DeLuna The College of William & Mary 2004
Robinson Crusoe, Virginal Hero
of the Commercial North
DeeAnn DeLuna
Johns Hopkins University
A Man is to be executed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 18–38.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Andrew O'Malley In this essay, the author argues that chapbook editions of Robinson Crusoe should be viewed not simply as impoverished abridgments of Defoe's novel, but as striking examples of the popular “appropriation” of an elite text by plebeian readers. The ruthless editorial decisions...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Leah Orr Critics have long discussed the conversion narrative in the first Crusoe volume as being a paradigm of an individual’s journey from sin to salvation. In the latter two volumes, however, Crusoe questions his initial conversion and eventually rejects his peaceful conclusions from volume 1...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 113–114.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Jordan Howell O’Malley Andrew . Children’s Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe . ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 ). Pp. 195 . $85 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay
What’s New with Robinson Crusoe...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 51–74.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and conflict. In this article, I examine the polemical nature of Robinson Crusoe ’s spatial experience and constructions, maritime and insular. Most readers know Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe for the shipwreck and the island. This sells short the novel’s formal spatial design, which contrasts its hero’s early...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 153–156.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Ann Marie Fallon [email protected] Andreas K. E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley , eds. Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years ( Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. , 2021 ). Pp. 234 . $42.50 Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Anthologies, journal articles, and edited collections...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 120–137.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Ann Van Sant Duke University Press 2008 R
Crusoe’s Hands
Ann Van Sant
University of California, Irvine
APRIL 22. — The next Morning I began to consider of Means to put this
Resolve...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Peter Walmsley Among his many experiments in manufacturing in the Life and Strange Surprising Adventures , Robinson Crusoe tries his hand at building canoes. The last of these, built with Friday’s help, is a hybrid of Carib and European design, a traditional dugout fitted out with sail and rudder...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Kit Kincade [email protected] Michael B. Prince . The Shortest Way with Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel ( Charlottesville : Univ of Virginia , 2020 ). Pp. 350 . $35 . Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Michael Prince argues that Daniel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 60–75.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., for instance, gives Robinson Crusoe (1719) many of the formal accou-
trements of truth, claiming, through an editor, that his novel is a “just His-
tory of Fact,” without even the “Appearance of Fiction in it.”6 Actual trav-
elers obsessed over this diff erence, often accusing one another of deviating
from...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 January 2018
... extensive writing on Anglo-Scottish relations dur-
ing the first two decades of the eighteenth century completes a project begun
by Francis Bacon. Second, it explores continuities between Defoe’s writing
on the Union and his earliest novels, Robinson Crusoe (1719) and The Farther
Adventures...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2012
... a Rogue,
that there is no enduring him.” 5 More than a quarter century after Defoe
stood in the pillory for The Shortest-Way (1702), Pope depicts him (inac-
curately) standing “Earless on high” and “un-abash’d.” 6 The best-known
response to Robinson Crusoe (1719) is Charles Gildon’s The Life...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 21–46.
Published: 01 January 2021
... Castaway Stories By the mid- 1720s, Defoe s Robinson Crusoe (1719) would have been the definitive account in English of life as a castaway. But Crusoe was only one in a long line of accounts, some historical and some invented, which increasingly engaged readers between 1640 and 1740.22 Evan Davis and Alex...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 116–118.
Published: 01 April 2015
... into the Cave of Spleen is infused with contemporary writing
on atmosphere. Chapters on Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year
pay rewarding attention to Crusoe’s obsession with weather and H. F.’s inter-
est in the supernatural to produce insights into both texts and their relation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 131–136.
Published: 01 January 2025
..., an understanding of the aesthetics of legal naturalization in the period can also work in tandem with opposing critical meanings of denaturalizing history. In her third chapter, DeGooyer builds on an intriguing interpretation from chapter 2, where she reads the first lines of Robinson Crusoe...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 150–156.
Published: 01 April 2016
... on the imposition of technological violence dressed
up as supernatural power finds fascinating parallels to Robinson Crusoe’s
use of the gun to tame Friday into obedience. Further, Loar shows us how
Defoe echoes Cavendish’s frightening vision of apocalyptic violence in the
oak scene in Captain Singleton...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 160–164.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Robinson Crusoe s inner world. Crusoe s contentious subjectivity, as well as his seemingly nat- ural impulse to project a conquering order upon foreign lands, presume and require violent conict between peoples. A warlike atmosphere thus helps materialize a view of the mind more than of external reality...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 1–7.
Published: 01 September 2020
... dimensions of war in Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ala Alryys explores Defoe s remarkable geography imaginary, and, specically, how Crusoe s behavior on both land and sea extrapolates con- temporary structures of thought wherein war oered a model for colonial encounter and the envisioning of global domains...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., an extraordinary illustration to Robinson Crusoe . . . Revised and Corrected for the Advancement of Nautical Education (1815) shows Crusoe and his shipmates struggling to get ashore in large surf between the Winterton lighthouse and Cromer (figure 7). Their long boat is poised at the top of what seems a cresting...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 36–59.
Published: 01 April 2012
... Eighteenth-Century Life
match the more widely known Defoe works like Robinson Crusoe and The
Family Instructor.24
The title pages alone did not announce Defoe’s relationship to Roxana
and Moll Flanders. In the Nobles’ advertising, Defoe’s authorship became
increasingly clear. A 13 December...
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