Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Editions)

The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe is based on the Shakespeare Head Press reprint of the first edition copy in the British Museum, with the "errata" listed by Defoe's publisher, William Taylor, incorporated into the text.

Preface

vii

The Text of Robinson Crusoe

1

(226)

A Note on the Text

221

(6)

Contexts

227

(30)

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF MAROONED MEN

227

(12)

William Dampier

[Rescue of a "Moskito Indian" Marooned over Three Years on Juan Fernandez Island]

227

(3)

Edward Cooke

[Rescue of Alexander Selkirk from Juan Fernandez Island]

230

(1)

Woodes Rogers

[Account of Alexander Selkirk's Solitary Life on Juan Fernandez Island for Four Years and Four Months]

230

(5)

Richard Steele

[On Alexander Selkirk]

235

(4)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: ROBINSON CRUSOE AS ALLEGORICAL HISTORY

239

(7)

Daniel Defoe

[Preface to Volume II of Robinson Crusoe]

239

(1)

[Preface to Volume III of Robinson Crusoe]

240

(3)

Serious Observations

243

(3)

THE PURITAN EMBLEMATIC TRADITION

246

(11)

J. Paul Hunter

[The "Guide" Tradition]

246

(4)

[The "Providence" Tradition]

250

(1)

[Spiritual Biography]

251

(6)

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Opinions

257

(26)

Charles Gildon

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. D-- De F--

257

(4)

Alexander Pope

[On Defoe]

261

(1)

Theophilus Cibber

[The Success of Robinson Crusoe]

261

(1)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[A Treatise on Natural Education]

262

(2)

Samuel Johnson

[In Praise of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe]

264

(1)

Hugh Blair

[Fictitious History]

264

(1)

James Beattie

[The Morality of Robinson Crusoe]

265

(1)

George Chalmers

[The Popularity of Robinson Crusoe]

265

(1)

John Ballantyne

[On Defoe]

266

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Crusoe as a Representative of Humanity]

267

(2)

Charles Lamb

[On Defoe's Novels]

269

(1)

William Wordsworth

[Crusoe's Extraordinary Energy and Resource]

270

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

[Defoe's Faculty of Identification]

270

(1)

William Hazlitt

[The Influence of Robinson Crusoe]

271

(1)

Thomas De Quincey

[The Double Character of Defoe's Works]

272

(1)

George Borrow

[Inspiration from Robinson Crusoe]

272

(1)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

[On Defoe]

273

(1)

Charles Dickens

[The Want of Emotion in Defoe]

274

(1)

Karl Marx

[Crusoe and Capitalism]

274

(3)

John Stuart Mill

[The Preeminence of Robinson Crusoe in Childhood]

277

(1)

Leslie Stephen

[Defoe's Discovery of a New Art Form]

277

(6)

Twentieth-Century Criticism

283

(150)

Virginia Woolf

Robinson Crusoe

283

(3)

Ian Watt

Robinson Crusoe as a Myth

288

(18)

Eric Berne

The Psychological Structure of Space with Some Remarks on Robinson Crusoe

306

(3)

Maximillian E. Novak

Robinson Crusoe and the State of Nature

309

(11)

Frank Budgen

[On Joyce's Admiration of Defoe]

320

(1)

James Joyce

Daniel Defoe

320

(3)

George A. Starr

Robinson Crusoe and the Myth of Mammon

323

(8)

J. Paul Hunter

The "Occasion" of Robinson Crusoe

331

(13)

James Sutherland

[On Robinson Crusoe]

344

(13)

John J. Richetti

Robinson Crusoe: The Self as Master

357

(16)

Leopold Damrosch, Jr.

Myth and Fiction in Robinson Crusoe

373

(17)

John Bender

The Novel and the Rise of the Penitentiary: Robinson Crusoe

390

(12)

Michael McKeon

Defoe and the Naturalization of Desire: Robinson Crusoe

402

(21)

Carol Houlihan Flynn

Consumptive Fictions: Cannibalism and Defoe

423

(10)

Daniel Defoe: A Chronology

433

(2)

Selected Bibliography

435

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