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Transformations, ideology, and the real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives finding the thing itself / Maximillian E. Novak.
| Author/creator | Novak, Maximillian E. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2015] |
| Description | x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Defoe as an innovator of fictional form -- Picturing the thing itself, or not: Defoe, painting, prose fiction, and the arts of describing -- The unmentionable and the ineffable in Defoe's fiction -- Novel or fictional memoir: the scandalous publication of Robinson Crusoe -- Meatless fridays: cannibalism as theme and metaphor in Robinson Crusoe -- Edenic desires: Robinson Crusoe, the Robinsonade, and utopian forms -- Strangely surpriz'd by Robinson Crusoe: a response to David Fishelov's "Robinson Crusoe, 'the other,' and the poetics of surprise" -- "Looking with wonder upon the sea" : Defoe's maritime fictions, Robinson Crusoe, and "the curious age we live in" -- The cave and the grotto: imagined interiors and realist form in Robinson Crusoe -- "The sume of humane misery?": ambiguities of exile in Defoe's fiction -- Ideological tendencies in three crusoe narratives by British novelists during the period following the French Revolution: Charles Dibdin's Hannah Hewit, the demale Crusoe, Maria Edgeworth's Forester, and Frances Burney's The wanderer. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014026784 |
| ISBN | 9781611494853 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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