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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Robinson Crusoe

Contents

  • The Text of Robinson Crusoe
  • A Note on the Text
  • Contexts
  • CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF MAROONED MEN
    • William Dampier, [Rescue of a "Moskito Indian" Marooned over Three Years on Juan Fernandez Island]
    • Edward Cooke, [Rescue of Alexander Selkirk from Juan Fernandez Island]
    • Woodes Rogers, [Account of Alexander Selkirk’s Solitary Life on Juan Fernandez Island for Four Years and Four Months]
    • Richard Steele, [On Alexander Selkirk]
  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY: ROBINSON CRUSOE AS ALLEGORICAL HISTORY
    • Daniel Defoe, [Preface to Volume II of Robinson Crusoe]
      [Preface to Volume III of Robinson Crusoe]
      Serious Observations
  • THE PURITAN EMBLEMATIC TRADITION
    • J. Paul Hunter, [The "Guide" Tradition]
      [The "Providence" Tradition]
      [Spiritual Biography]
  • Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Opinions
  • Charles Gildon, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventurs of Mr. D— De F—
  • Alexander Pope, [On Defoe]
  • Theophilus Cibber, [The Success of Robinson Crusoe]
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, [A Treatise on Natural Education]
  • Samuel Johnson, [In Praise of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe]
  • Hugh Blair, [Fictitious History]
  • James Beattie, [The Morality of Robinson Crusoe]
  • George Chalmers, [The Popularity of Robinson Crusoe]
  • [John Ballantyne], [On Defoe]
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [Crusoe as Representative of Humanity]
  • Charles Lamb, [On Defoe’s Novels]
  • William Wordsworth, [Crusoe’s Extraordinary Energy and Resource]
  • Edgar Allen Poe, [Defoe’s Faculty of Identification]
  • William Hazlitt, [The Influence of Robinson Crusoe]
  • Thomas De Quincy, [The Double Character of Defoe’s Work]
  • George Borrow, [Inspiration from Robinson Crusoe]
  • Thomas Babbington Macaulay, [On Defoe]
  • Charles Dickens, [The Want of Emotion in Defoe]
  • Karl Marx, [Crusoe and Capitalism]
  • John Stuart Mill, [The Preeminence of Robinson Crusoe in Childhood]
  • Leslie Stephen, [Defoe’s Discovery of a New Art Form]
  • Twentieth-Century Criticism
  • Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
  • Ian Watt, Robinson Crusoe as a Myth
  • Eric Berne, The Psychological Structure of Space with Some Remarks on Robinson Crusoe
  • Maximillian E. Novak, Robinson Crusoe and the State of Nature
  • Frank Budgen, [On Joyce’s Admiration of Defoe]
  • James Joyce, Daniel Defoe
  • George A. Starr, Robinson Crusoe and the Myth of Mammon
  • J. Paul Hunter, The "Occasion" of Robinson Crusoe
  • James Sutherland, [On Robinson Crusoe]
  • John J. Richetti, Robinson Crusoe: The Self as Master
  • Leopold Damrosch Jr., Myth and Fiction in Robinson Crusoe
  • John Bender, The Novel and the Rise of the Penitentiary: Robinson Crusoe
  • Michael McKeon, Defoe and the Naturalization of Desire: Robinson Crusoe
  • Carol Houlihan Flynn, Consumptive Fictions: Cannibalism and Defoe
  • Daniel Defoe: A Chronology
    Selected Bibliography