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Description: The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe is based on the Shakespeare Head Press reprint of the first—edition copy in the British Museum, with the "Errata" listed by Defoe’s publisher, William Taylor, incorporated into the text. 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 of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe" is a comprehensive survey of early estimations by prominent literary and political figures, including Alexander Pope, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan 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, Erie Berne, Max-imillian E. Novak, Frank Budgen, James Joyce, George A. Starr, J. Paul Hunter, James Sutherland, John J. Richetti, Leopold Damrosch, Jr., John Bender, Michael MeKeon, and Carol Houlihan Flynn.
A Chronology of Defoe’s life and work and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.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 Adventures 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 a Representative of Humanity] • Charles Lamb • [On Defoe’s Novels] • William Wordsworth • [Crusoe’s Extraordinary Energy and Resource] • Edgar Allan Poe • [Defoe’s Faculty of Identification] • William Hazlitt • [The Influence of Robinson Crusoe] • Thomas De Quincey • [The Double Character of Defoe’s Works] • George Borrow • [Inspiration from Robinson Crusoe] • Thomas Babington 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 BibliographyISBN - 9780393964523
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Pages : 444
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