Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of
both how and why the trope of the island functions within
contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the
development of Western "islomania" - or our obsession with islands
- from its origins in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe right up to
contemporary Robinsonade texts, focusing predominantly on American
and European representations of fictionalized Pacific Island
topographies in contemporary literature, film, television, and
other media. Theorising Literary Islands argues that the ubiquity
of island landscapes within the popular imagination belies certain
ideological and cultural anxieties, and posits that the emergence
of a Western popular culture tradition can largely be traced
through the development of the Robinsonade genre, and through early
European and American fascination with the Pacific region.
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