Rewriting Crusoe

The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2020
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-232-0 (ISBN)

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Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the book's endurance, analysing its literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context.

Published in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel—who in 1731 penned his own island narrative—coined the term “Robinsonade” to characterize the genre bred by this classic, and today hundreds of examples can be identified worldwide. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the Robinsonade’s endurance, analyzing its various literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context. Contributors trace the Robinsonade’s roots from the eighteenth century to generic affinities in later traditions, including juvenile fiction, science fiction, and apocalyptic fiction, and finally to contemporary adaptations in film, television, theater, and popular culture. Taken together, these essays convince us that the genre’s adapt- ability to changing social and cultural circumstances explains its relevance to this day.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

JAKUB LIPSKI is an associate professor of English at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He is the author of In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2014) and Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2018).

Note on the Edition Used

Foreword by Robert Mayer

Introduction

Jakub Lipski

Part I: Exploring and Transcending the Genre

Mushrooms, Capers, and other sorts of Pickles”: Remaking Genre in Peter Longueville’s The Hermit (1727)

Rivka Swenson

“If I had …”: Counterfactuals, Imaginary Realities and the Poetics of the Postmodern Robinsonade

Patrick Gill

Part II: National Contexts

Castaways and Colonialism: Dislocating Cultural Encounter in The Female American (1767)

Przemysław Uściński

Setting the Scene for the Polish Robinsonade: The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (1776) by Ignacy Krasicki and the Early Reception of Robinson Crusoe in Poland, 1769-1775

Jakub Lipski

The Rise and Fall of Robinson Crusoe on the London Stage

Frederick Burwick

Islands in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886): A Counter-Robinsonade

Márta Pellérdi

Part III: Ecocritical Readings

Stormy Weather and the Gentle Isle: Apprehending the Environment of Three Robinsonades

Lora E. Geriguis

Robinson’s Becoming-Earth in Michel Tournier’s Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967)

Krzysztof Skonieczny

Part IV: The Robinsonade and the Present Condition

“The True State of Our Condition”: The Twenty-First-Century Worker as Castaway

Jennifer Preston Wilson

Gilligan’s Wake, Gilligan’s Island, and Historiographizing American Popular Culture

Ian Kinane

Coda: Rewriting the Robinsonade

Daniel Cook

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2020
Co-Autor	Robert Mayer, Rivka Swenson, Patrick A. Gill, Przemyslaw Uscinski
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-68448-232-1 / 1684482321
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-232-0 / 9781684482320
Zustand	Neuware