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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.
This book explores significant problems in the fiction of Daniel
Defoe. Maximillian E. Novak investigates a number of elements in
Defoe's work by probing his interest in rendering of reality (what
Defoe called "the Thing itself"). Novak examines Defoe's interest
in the relationship between prose fiction and painting, as well as
the various ways in which Defoe's woks were read by contemporaries
and by those novelists who attempted to imitate and comment upon
his Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
decades after its publication. In this book, Novak attempts to
consider the uniqueness and imaginativeness of various aspects of
Defoe's writings including his way of evoking the seeming inability
of language to describe a vivid scene or moments of overwhelming
emotion, his attraction to the fiction of islands and utopias, his
gradual development of the concepts surrounding Crusoe's cave, his
fascination with the horrors of cannibalism, and some of the ways
he attempted to defend his work and serious fiction in general.
Most of all, Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives establishes the complexity and
originality of Defoe as a writer of fiction.
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 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.
When Defoe published The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe in
1719, he could not have imagined that Crusoe, Friday, and a
footprint in the sand would enjoy global recognition 300 years
later. Why-and how-does Crusoe's story resonate today? There is no
shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe's creation,
which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontier
myth, with Crusoe seen as an example of the self-sufficient
adventurer and the archetypal colonizer and capitalist. Defoe's
original has been reimagined multiple times in legions of
Robinsonade or castaway stories. But there is still much more to
say-the Crusoe myth is far from spent. This wide-ranging collection
brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways
of thinking about this most familiar of works, and who ask us to
consider the enduring appeal of 'Crusoe,' more recognizable today
than ever before.
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 title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1977.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1977.
There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe’s
Robinson Crusoe, which has been interpreted as both religious
allegory and frontier myth, with Crusoe seen as an example of the
self-sufficient adventurer and the archetypal colonizer and
capitalist. Defoe’s original has been reimagined multiple times
in legions of Robinsonade or castaway stories, but the Crusoe myth
is far from spent. This wideranging collection brings together
eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking
about this most familiar of works, and who ask us to consider the
enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever
before.
This book explores significant problems in the fiction of Daniel
Defoe. Maximillian E. Novak investigates a number of elements in
Defoe's work by probing his interest in rendering of reality (what
Defoe called "the Thing itself"). Novak examines Defoe's interest
in the relationship between prose fiction and painting, as well as
the various ways in which Defoe's woks were read by contemporaries
and by those novelists who attempted to imitate and comment upon
his Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
decades after its publication. In this book, Novak attempts to
consider the uniqueness and imaginativeness of various aspects of
Defoe's writings including his way of evoking the seeming inability
of language to describe a vivid scene or moments of overwhelming
emotion, his attraction to the fiction of islands and utopias, his
gradual development of the concepts surrounding Crusoe's cave, his
fascination with the horrors of cannibalism, and some of the ways
he attempted to defend his work and serious fiction in general.
Most of all, Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives establishes the complexity and
originality of Defoe as a writer of fiction.
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Thomas Southerne; Edited by David Stuart Rodes, Maximillian E Novak
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The two plots of this tragicomedy concern a black prince sold into
slavery and two white women who are husband-hunting in Surinam.
Through a discussion of the status of women in the period and of
attitudes towards slavery, the editors demonstrated Southerne's
complex attempt to explore a parallel between the conditions of
slaves and women in contemporary society. They also consider the
play in terms of Southerne's high Tory politics and in its own
rights as effective drama. Based on a collection of seven editions
published within Southerne's life-time, this modern edition
includes a section on stage history, with an account of revisions
and adaptations, and a detailed comparison between the play and its
source in Aphra Behn's novella of the same name.
Now at ninety-three volumes, this popular MLA series addresses a
broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids
and critical material and brings together essays that apply a
variety of perspectives to teaching the text. In these essays,
experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods they have found
effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.
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