The Further Surprising Adventures of the Scholarship of Robinson Crusoe
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2025
Abstract
Anthologies, journal articles, and edited collections about Robinson Crusoe continue to emerge from the presses every year, almost as ubiquitous as the famous Robinsonades that became their own genre in the eighteenth century. The proliferation of scholarship around Robinson Crusoe, like the proliferation of Robinsonades, represents not just the influence of Crusoe as a text, but also the influence of the idea of Crusoe, the myth, to use Ian Watt's description, separate from the existence of the novel.1 As one of the most recent additions to this body of scholarship, Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years traces the influence of both text and myth in the past three centuries. In doing so, it contributes to the continuing legacy of the novel, but also strikingly overlooks the significance of race in that legacy.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11523812
Publication Information
Fallon, Ann Marie (2025). "The Further Surprising Adventures of the Scholarship of Robinson Crusoe." Eighteenth-Century Life 49.1, 153-156.
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