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The Shortest Way with Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe,” Deism, and the Novel
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 231–234.
Published: 01 June 2022
...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...
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Oroonoko and Crusoe's Man Friday
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 286–291.
Published: 01 September 1951
...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...
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Defoe and the Idea of Fiction, 1713–1719
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 199–202.
Published: 01 June 1984
... 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...
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Defoe & Spiritual Autobiography.
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 224–226.
Published: 01 June 1966
... 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...
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God's Plot and Man's Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (3): 321–324.
Published: 01 September 1986
...., 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...
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The Death of the Novel and Two Postcolonial Writers
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 533–556.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., 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...
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Pastoral Forms and Attitudues
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 449–453.
Published: 01 December 1972
..., 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...
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Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 200–203.
Published: 01 June 1977
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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...
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Poetry as an Occupation and an Art in Britain, 1760–1830
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (1): 102–105.
Published: 01 March 1995
... 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...
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Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660–1730
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (1): 99–102.
Published: 01 March 1995
... 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...
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Defoe and the Novel
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 194–196.
Published: 01 June 1977
... 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...
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Fortune and Elizabethan Tragedy
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 196–199.
Published: 01 June 1984
... 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...
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The Moonstone , the Victorian Novel, and Imperialist Panic
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 297–319.
Published: 01 September 1994
... 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...
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Poetry as Political Foundationalism; Or, the Dangers of Discursive Dominance
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 393–404.
Published: 01 September 1993
... 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...
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Lapponia, Lapland, and Laputa
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (4): 343–351.
Published: 01 December 1958
... 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...
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Defoe's Sources for “Robert Drury's Journal”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 512–513.
Published: 01 December 1943
...
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...
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Confinement and Flight: An Essay on English Literature of the Eighteenth Century
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (1): 76–77.
Published: 01 March 1978
... 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...
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Surprise: The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 595–597.
Published: 01 December 2016
... 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...
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“Men, Monkeys, Lap-Dogs, Parrots, Perish All!” Psittacine Articulacy in Early Modern Writing
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (2): 171–193.
Published: 01 June 1998
....
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...
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Defoe and Fictional Time
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (3): 287–291.
Published: 01 September 1980
..., 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...
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