Approaches to teaching Defoe's Robinson Crusoe / edited by Maximillian E. Novak and Carl Fisher.

Other author Novak, Maximillian E.
Other author Fisher, Carl, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Modern Language Association of America, 2005.
Descriptionvii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesApproaches to teaching world literature
Approaches to teaching world literature. ^A223695
Contents Publishing history and modern editions -- Daniel Defoe : a brief biography -- Critical reputation of Robinson Crusoe and its status as a novel -- Scholarly biographies -- Crusoe's fictional predecessors -- Robinson Crusoe as international text : translation, circulation, and adaptation -- Internet resources -- Teaching Pilgrim's progress and Robinson Crusoe, or, From filthy mire to the glory of things / Robert Maniquis -- Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's travels : some pedagogical frameworks / Richard Braverman -- Robinson Crusoe's parodic intertextuality / Roxanne Kent-Frury and Gordon Sayre -- Weber, Watt, and restraint : Robinson Crusoe and the critical tradition / Manuel Schonhorn -- Myths of modern individualism : Defoe, Franklin, and Whitman / Geoffrey Sill -- Crusoe among the travelers / Paula R. Backscheider -- Thank God it's Friday: the construction of masculinity in Robinson Crusoe / George E. Haggerty -- Robinson Crusoe and early eighteenth-century racial ideology / Roxann Wheeler -- Teaching the Crusoe trilogy / Robert Markley -- Robinson Crusoe as literary art / Timothy C. Blackburn -- Messages in bottles : a comparative formal approach to castaway narratives / John Barberet -- A semester on Crusoe's island / Matthew Wickman -- The Robinsonade : an intercultural history of an idea / Carl Fisher -- Reading the hermit's manuscript : the female American and female Robinsonades / Laura M. Stevens -- Contexts for crusoe : colonial adventure and social disintegration / Everett Zimmerman -- Teaching contemporary responses to Robinson Crusoe : Coetzee, Walcott, and others in a world literature survey / Charles W. Pollard -- Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood / Robert Mayer -- Teaching Robinson Crusoe in the introduction to literature course / Christina Sassi-Lehner -- "Great labour and difficulty" : Robinson Crusoe as introduction to literary analysis / Anne Chandler -- From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf : is there room for Robinson Crusoe in an English literature survey course? / Carl Fisher -- Teaching Robinson Crusoe in a survey of the novel course / Maximillian E. Novak -- Robinson Crusoe and children's literature / Anne Lundin -- Accounting for the self : teaching Robinson Crusoe at a business school / Cheryl Nixon.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005003987
ISBN0873529162 (alk. paper)
ISBN0873529170 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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