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...Gary Handwerk [email protected] The Shortest Way with Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe,” Deism, and the Novel . By Michael B. Prince . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2020 . x + 336 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 A man of genius makes...

...Edward D. Seeber Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 OROONOKO AND CRUSOE’S MAN FRIDAY By EDWARDD. SEEBER Some years ago, Professor Arthur W. Secord published a method- ical investigation of the sources of Robinson Crusoe,l with abundant...

... reassessment of Defoe, and particularly of his greatest work, Robinson Crusoe. Sill comes to Defoe as a Marxist-or, to be more precise, as a follower of Raymond Williams and of Antonio Gramsci- which gives him two advantages. First, since he believes Defoe’s work, both fictional and nonfictional...

... Press, 1965. xiii + 203 pp. $6.50. G. A. Starr seeks to show Defoe’s debt, in Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, to the tradition of spiritual autobiography in the seventeenth century. In reviewing the tradition, he concentrates on Presbyterian and Anglican sources rather than...

...., pursues these tensions through a series of perceptive analyses of widely diverse fictional works, including Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim’s Procgress,Robinson Crusoe, Clarissa, and TomJones, as well as through various autobiographical ones, including Augustine’s Co?fessionS, Bunyan’s Grace...

..., Goldsmith, Gray’s Elegy, and Hardy; of chalk downs, brookside scrolls, footbridges, bridle paths, Stonehenge, and delicate beds of peonies,” was, of course, a literary idea.24 Novel’s Foe Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe traces, through the misadventures of its hero, the progress of a civilization...

..., in his theoretical discussions, a sense of knowing what is central in pastoral and what is peripheral, but his catego- ries and definitions are broad enough to allow lucid comments on such bor- derline works as Robinson Crusoe: [Crusoe’s] basic impulses are closer to georgic than...

... 20 1 fictional, that explore a common theme: the role of the imagination in Cow- per’s Memoir and Robinson Crusoe and, in a later chapter, in Boswell’s London Journal and Tom Jones; ambivalence toward power in autobiogra- phies, letters, and novels by Laetitia Pilkington, Lady Mary...

... for the benefit of the court” (231) . His concern to find that later heroes are generative fathers leads to dubious claims about The Way Ofthe World and Robinson Crusoe. He is driven to insist that of all the male characters in The Way, only Mirabell is “capable of fathering” and that Sir Willful...

... are generative fathers leads to dubious claims about The Way Ofthe World and Robinson Crusoe. He is driven to insist that of all the male characters in The Way, only Mirabell is “capable of fathering” and that Sir Willful is “declared non compos mentis by Lady Wishfort, meaning he is legally prohibited...

... about this reading. Without any direct state- ment of psychological method, it is eclectically Freudian, but as Zimmerman rightly notes on one occasion, Defbe’s own “Freudianism” can be “almost orthodox” (p. 82). Zimmerman starts out by seeing Crusoe as a near projec- tion of Defoe in his...

... to the modern scholarly reassessment of Defoe, and particularly of his greatest work, Robinson Crusoe. Sill comes to Defoe as a Marxist-or, to be more precise, as a follower of Raymond Williams and of Antonio Gramsci- which gives him two advantages. First, since he believes Defoe’s work, both...

... network of empire dissolves the boundaries of discrete cultural stages. Robinson Crusoe and a pipe of tobacco, the infallible remedies of old Betteredge, exemplify the ear- lier, feudal cultural stage he mentally inhabits as one of a primitive development of national empire rather than...

... status of the novel, rather than its alignment with the for- mal laws of genre. If Jacques bfataliste is a one-of-a-kind work, then so is La Religieuse, and so also Ebctive Affinities and Robinson Crusoe and Bou- vard et Picuchet and Orlando and One Hundred Years of Solitude, and most any other...

... borrower. For example, hardly a con- crete instance of his use of Robinson Crusoe, and indeed scarcely a single allusion to Defoe, has been traced in Swift’s works, close as the two books and the two men appear to be related.6 Among the places where Swift has possibly utilized the writing...

... germinated from a newspaper item of 1705, that this was expanded through extensive use of Robert Knox’s Ceylon (already known to us as a source of Robinson Crusoe), and that Defoe drew in various ways upon his own first-hand knowledge of Madagascar, some of which he had utilized before...

... or self-inflicted” (p. 27) of Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver, and Uncle Toby. Though the discussion includes an interesting analysis of Gulliver’s move- ment from “fluency to blockage, from speech to speechlessness” (p. 45), Car- nochan’s thematic concern does not appreciably extend our perception...

... as a legitimate aesthetic aim. When Defoe titled his first novel The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe , for example, he employed an older sense of the word, physical in nature, and therefore largely lost to us today: “Surprise was conceived of as a fully corporeal emotion: a sudden...

.... Thus, to turn from historical to belletristic material, it may be no coincidence that one of the most famous parrots in English literature, Robinson Crusoe’s Poll, is described increasingly in terms of anthropo- morphized subordination. When the castaway first encounters birds on his island...

..., Singleton, Moll, and Crusoe exist both in his readers’ time, “the flow of historical time,” and “outside their own periods . . . in that timeless realm of the imagination where they may easily be regarded as one of us” (p. 41). Yet when Alkon shows the coupling of chronologies in the fictions...