The Cambridge companion to "Robinson Crusoe" / edited by John Richetti.
The Cambridge companion to "Robinson Crusoe" / edited by John Richetti.
The Cambridge companion to "Robinson Crusoe" / edited by John Richetti.
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Publisher
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/4294
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English
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Physical content
xix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part I. Robinson Crusoe and Daniel Defoe: the eighteenth century -- Genre, nature, Robinson Crusoe / J. Paul Hunter -- Robinson Crusoe and the form of the new novel / Rivka Swenson -- Robinson Crusoe and Defoe's career as a writer / Maximillian E. Novak -- Robinson Crusoe: housekeeping, gentility an...
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Publisher
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
"An instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of Defoe's novel, exploring the reasons for its immense populari...
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The Cambridge companion to "Robinson Crusoe" / edited by John Richetti.
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Cambridge companions to literature
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/4294
Record Identifier
74VKVkqAvA6X
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ISBN
1107696801 paperback
9781107043497 hardcover
1107043492 hardcover
9781107696808 paperback
DDC
823.5
MMS ID
991024179909202626
