Michael Shinagel has collated the reprint with all six authorized
editions published by Taylor in 1719 to achieve a text that is
faithful to Defoe's original edition. Annotations assist the reader
with obscure words and idioms, biblical references, and nautical
terms. "Contexts" helps the reader understand the novel s
historical and religious significance. Included are four
contemporary accounts of marooned men, Defoe s autobiographical
passages on the novel s allegorical foundation, and aspects of the
Puritan emblematic tradition essential for understanding the novel
s religious aspects. "Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Opinions"
is a comprehensive study of early estimations by prominent literary
and political figures, including Alexander Pope, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William
Wordsworth, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Charles
Dickens, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill. "Twentieth-Century
Criticism" is a collection of fourteen essays (five of them new to
the Second Edition) that presents a variety of perspectives on
Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Ian Watt, Eric Berne,
Maximillian E. Novak, Frank Budgen, James Joyce, George A. Starr,
J. Paul Hunter, James Sutherland, John J. Richetti, Leopold
Damrosch, Jr., John Bender, Michael McKeon, and Carol Houlihan
Flynn. A Chronology of Defoe s life and work and an updated
Selected Bibliography are also included."
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