Robinson Crusoe After 300 Years

ANDREAS K. MUELLER is a professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.  GLYNIS RIDLEY is a professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

"The editors have gathered a collection of excellent essays by eminent scholars on the continuing relevance and power after three hundred years of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Informative and provocative, these essays provide an essential testimonial to the cultural and philosophical implications of Defoe’s classic novel through those centuries into our own." - John Richetti (editor of The Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe) "This rich, wide-ranging volume brings into view the kinds of concerns and contexts that have informed the reception of Robinson Crusoe itself as well as countless remediations: gender, individualism, imperialism; pantomime, cinema, animal stories for children; more variously, Newton, tobacco, the sequel, and Crusoeian iconicity. This collection is valuable both for its deepening contribution to Defoe studies and its broadening relevance to a larger conversation about the genres of the Robinsonade." - Rivka Swenson (author of Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603-1832) "[An]outstanding collection of essays that demonstrates the enduring significance of literature’s most famous castaway." (Restoration Journal) "A highly entertaining and enlightening collection of contemporary essays." (The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer) "Valuable to eighteenth-century scholars with an interest in Defoe, postcolonialism, and reception studies-and beyond.” (The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats)

• A Note on the TextIntroductionAndreas K. E. Mueller and Glynis RidleyPART ONE: Generic Revisions1 The Martian: Crusoe at the Final FrontierGlynis Ridley2 Robinson’s Transgender Voyage: or, Burlesquing CrusoeGeoffrey Sill3 Animal Crusoes: Anthropomorphism and Identification in Children’s RobinsonadesAmy Hicks and Scott PyrzPART TWO: Mind and Matter4 Defoe and Newton: Modern MatterLaura Brown5 Crusoe’s Ecstasies: Passivity, Resignation, and Tobacco RitesDaniel Yu6 Taken by Storm: Robinson Crusoe and Aqueous ViolenceJeremy Chow7 Life Gets Tedious: Crusoe and the Threat of BoredomPat RogersPART THREE: Character and Form8 Crusoe’s RamblingBenjamin F. Pauley9 Crusoe’s Encounters with the World and the Problem of Justice in The Farther AdventuresMaximillian E. Novak10 “To Us the Mere Name Is Enough”: Robinson Crusoe, Myth, and IconicityAndreas K. E. MuellerAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex