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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 165–185.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Kevin Seidel By grappling with secular and religious approaches to Defoe's fiction, this essay describes the theory of fiction that Defoe writes his way toward during the course of his three-book Crusoe novel, which includes The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 339–362.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Sarah Tindal Kareem This essay reimagines the relationship between Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and David Hume's skeptical philosophy, a relationship previously defined by Ian Watt's suggestion in The Rise of the Novel (1957) that Hume's emphasis upon man's essentially social nature...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 290–296.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Margaret Cohen From Ian Watt's reading of Robinson Crusoe , novel critics valuing realism as the highest expression of the form have tried to domesticate adventure fiction and the rambling dispositions of its protagonists. In contrast, this essay argues that such rambling explores a foundational...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of the nonlife that Barton calls the “abject”: “the life of a thing” ( Foe 126). Why must Foe' s closure come at the cost of both language and sight? What does it mean that Friday's dreamlike realm beneath the corpse of Barton recalls Cruso's death chamber (“your husband is sinking” [42]) and is as uncanny...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of Silver performs this intervention by definitively decentering Robinson Crusoe in its own critical narrative. The Age of Silver' s method of reading draws on Joseph Fletcher's notion of “integrative history,” which focuses on the “horizontal continuities” of seemingly distinct national cultures...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 455–460.
Published: 01 November 2012
... or Zola)
and second in ignoring the enormous literary corpus of sea literature in favor of domes-
tic novels of manners. Even those novels in which the ocean and navigation are central
to the plots and themes, such as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Herman Melville’s
Moby-Dick, frequently get...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 311–315.
Published: 01 August 2014
... articulation of its conceptual aims and
assumptions.
Falling into Matter traverses a very conventional eighteenth century, offering extended
readings of Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Clarissa, Tom Jones,andFrankenstein;itonly
parts from this unapologetically canonical account with an enterprising...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 375–378.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., converging on Robinson Crusoe as a signal literary marker of
the historical emergence of rationalized individualism” (45–46). At the same time that Ian
Watt, the seminal theorist of the early English novel, was at St. John’s College, Cambridge,
engaged in scholarship that would lead to his pioneering...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 171–174.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of the early novel that connects it to utopian literature, then, Pearl has set himself a task that is fraught with difficulties. The five books he discusses inevitably straddle the gap between the titular genres imperfectly: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton are, by convention...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 August 2020
... is concerned with showing readers how they might lead lives by showing how a life is something that can be led” ( Official World 121 ). Perhaps no surprise, then, that Joanna is at once a sort of public Crusoe—because Robinson Crusoe is the paradigmatic incidence of a novel about self-making that is read...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 1999
... trials on the
island may be read as a kind of midrash on [the biblical story of the prophet] Jonah (29).
Where Watt defined Robinson Grusoe as a classic instance of homo economicus, Fisch takes
the novel and author to a deeper level by analyzing the character of Robinson Crusoe as an
instance...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 443–450.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Harry. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1994 . 243 -74. Defoe , Daniel . Journal of the Plague Year . Ed. Burgess Anthony and Bristow Christopher. London: Penguin, 1987 . ———. Robinson Crusoe . Ed. Angus , Ross . London: Penguin, 1985 . ———. The Storm . Ed. Richard , Hamblyn...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 May 2012
... changes focus
as well as methodology as she shifts to the transatlantic or colonial novel via The Algerine
Spy of Pennsylvania, Robinson Crusoe, Lettres d’une Péruvienne, and The History of Emily Mon-
tague. Here, she endeavors to show how the diegetic use of multilingualism and translation
within...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 310–314.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Alison Booth The chapter titled “Reading” pursues earlier reactions to “superabundance and the reading practices it generates” (21), first visiting the eighteenth-century context of Daniel Defoe accompanied by Mary Poovey and others, and thence to later uses of Robinson Crusoe to soothe...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 216–220.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., definitions of
landed ownership underlie definitions of the mobile conunodity.
Through rigorous accounts of legal, philosophical, and novelistic texts, Schmdgen
depicts an eighteenth-century world caught between sets of terms-in his account of
Robinson Crusoe, for instance, between...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
... the text that Latour insists must be the starting point for any inquiry into his philosophy ( Harman 12 )—comes in an anecdote about Michel Tournier's version of the Robinson Crusoe myth: [ H ] alfway through the novel Friday carelessly blows up the powder magazine and Robinson finds himself as naked...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 443.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of imaginative expansion within a newly proprietary
model of authorship circa 1825. And here difficult questions begin to arise. Why exactly
these cases rather than others? What about-to take the most obvious omission-Robinson
Crusoe, who was one of the period's most familiar fictional characters...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Middle Ages . 1948 . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1973 . 302 – 47 . Defoe Daniel . Robinson Crusoe . 1719 . New York : Norton , 1994 . Derrida Jacques . Of Grammatology . Trans. Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1976 . Dimock Wai Chee...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 May 1999
...-
peratives. Improvisory subjectivity negotiated these competing moves towards autonomy
and conformity, reason, and habit, and was both "self-reliant, yet culturally conformed"
(39). Barney offers supple readings of eighteenth-century novels of education, from
Robinson Crusoe to The Female Quixote...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 13–18.
Published: 01 May 2012
.... Any given work of
fiction can be viewed as a succession of scenes of varying sociocognitive complex-
ity, including scenes in which the same character reflects upon his or her own
mental states. For example, Robinson Crusoe may go from imagining God’s atti-
tude toward him, poor sinner...
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