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Immensely readable history by the author of Robinson Crusoe incorporates the author's celebrated flair for journalistic detail, and represents the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century. Defoe recounts the daring and bloody deeds of such outlaws as Edward Teach (alias Blackbeard), Captain Kidd, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, many others. New Introduction provides insights into the origins and significance of this important historical work. Commentary and Notes. Indexes.
Defoe’s The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was almost
always published together with The Life and Strange Surprizing
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Only after 1950 was the first volume
printed alone—a shorter work for some classes. But in addition to
fulfilling the promise of the first volume, The Farther Adventures
is an exciting adventure novel by itself. Crusoe returns to his
island to learn about his colony, and then travels to Madagascar,
India, and China before returning to England after some exciting
encounters. Complete with an introduction, line notes, and full
bibliographical notes, this is an edition like no other.
Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as
John-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M.
Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred
years. An adventure tale involving cannibals, pirates, and
shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social, political, and
philosophical themes that continue to be relevant today. Moreover,
the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a fascination with
survival continue to be central to countless popular cinema and
television programs. This edition of the novel with its
introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a
uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no
other edition like it.
Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as
John-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M.
Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred
years. An adventure tale involving cannibals, pirates, and
shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social, political, and
philosophical themes that continue to be relevant today. Moreover,
the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a fascination with
survival continue to be central to countless popular cinema and
television programs. This edition of the novel with its
introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a
uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no
other edition like it.
Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of
Robinson Crusoewith his Vision of the Angelick World, first
published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures
of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice
of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe's thoughts about many
moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation,
poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this
volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of
the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that
appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also
includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the
planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe's 1705 work
The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this
most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any
student of the period.
Defoe's The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was almost always
published together with The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures
of Robinson Crusoe. Only after 1950 was the first volume printed
alone-a shorter work for some classes. But in addition to
fulfilling the promise of the first volume, The Farther Adventures
is an exciting adventure novel by itself. Crusoe returns to his
island to learn about his colony, and then travels to Madagascar,
India, and China before returning to England after some exciting
encounters. Complete with an introduction, line notes, and full
bibliographical notes, this is an edition like no other.
During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel
Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of
“long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating
long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals;
or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe”
initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This
understated publishing magnate created a global audience for a
research specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism.
Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario
a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An
introduction discusses Hornstein’s life and achievements,
revealing the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the
early days of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on
the business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of
publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural
legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by
the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined,
delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies. Published by Bucknell
University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University
Press.
This study of Defoe's politics aims to challenge the critical
demand to see Defoe as a 'modern' and to counter misrepresentations
of his political writings by restoring them to their
seventeenth-century context. Offering a full examination of Defoe's
years as a political reporter and journalist (1689-1715), it
recovers his traditional, conservative and anti-Lockean ideas on
contemporary issues: the origins of society, the role of the people
in the establishment of a political society and how monarchies are
created and maintained as the means of achieving a beneficent
political order. At the heart of Defoe's political imagination,
Manuel Schonhorn finds the vision of a warrior-king, derived from
sources in the Bible and in ancient and English history. This model
illuminates his original reading of Defoe's greatest political
fiction, Robinson Crusoe, which emerges less in terms of a family
romance, a tract for the rising bourgeoisie or a Lockean parable of
government, than as a dramatic re-enactment of Defoe's lifelong
political preoccupations concerning society, government and
kingship.
Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of
Robinson Crusoewith his Vision of the Angelick World, first
published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures
of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice
of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many
moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation,
poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this
volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of
the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that
appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also
includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the
planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work
The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this
most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any
student of the period.
A three-volume set of the definitive Stoke Newington Editions of
Robinson Crusoe. The novels and essays with introductions, line
notes, and full bibliographical notes. Includes: The Life and
Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,The Farther
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and Serious Reflections During the
Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision
of the Angelick World. Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that
fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx,
Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international
best-seller for three hundred years. An adventure tale involving
cannibals, pirates, and shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social,
political, and philosophical themes that continue to be relevant
today. Moreover, the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a
fascination with survival continue to be central to countless
popular cinema and television programs. This edition of the novel
with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes
provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has
been no other edition like it. Defoe’s The Farther Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe was almost always published together with The Life
and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Only after
1950 was the first volume printed alone—a shorter work for some
classes. But in addition to fulfilling the promise of the first
volume, The Farther Adventures is an exciting adventure novel by
itself. Crusoe returns to his island to learn about his colony, and
then travels to Madagascar, India, and China before returning to
England after some exciting encounters. Complete with an
introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes, this is
an edition like no other. Serious Reflections During the Life and
Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the
Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of
essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing
Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the
narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and
epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in
poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but
the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later
works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in
which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage
impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the
ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists,
it is invaluable for any student of the period.
This study of Defoe's politics aims to challenge the critical
demand to see Defoe as a 'modern' and to counter misrepresentations
of his political writings by restoring them to their
seventeenth-century context. Offering a full examination of Defoe's
years as a political reporter and journalist (1689-1715), it
recovers his traditional, conservative and anti-Lockean ideas on
contemporary issues: the origins of society, the role of the people
in the establishment of a political society and how monarchies are
created and maintained as the means of achieving a beneficent
political order. At the heart of Defoe's political imagination,
Manuel Schonhorn finds the vision of a warrior-king, derived from
sources in the Bible and in ancient and English history. This model
illuminates his original reading of Defoe's greatest political
fiction, Robinson Crusoe, which emerges less in terms of a family
romance, a tract for the rising bourgeoisie or a Lockean parable of
government, than as a dramatic re-enactment of Defoe's lifelong
political preoccupations concerning society, government and
kingship.
During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel
Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of 'long'
eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running
research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by
converting daring ideas into lauded books, 'Gabe' initiated a
golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated
publishing magnate created a global audience for a research
specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism. Paper,
Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a
vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An
introduction discusses Hornstein's life and achievements, revealing
the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the early days
of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on the
business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of
publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural
legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by
the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined,
delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies.
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