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The Prodigal Motif in Defoe and 'Robinson Crusoe.'
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The theme of isolation in four novels of Daniel Defoe
… of the characters in his novels. The solitude of Robinson Crusoe has been frequently discussed, but the characters in other novels have not been studied in much detail nor have the characters been studied as a group of isolated with similar characteristics.</p><p>The purpose of the following study …
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Feeling real in fiction : a study of the phenomenological mimesis of givenness in the novel.
… a series of phenomenological close readings of Robinson Crusoe, Jude the Obscure, and Middlemarch I explore how each of these novels, in different ways, make the reader's reception of their givenness as text feel like the reception of a life-world. In Robinson Crusoe, for example, Defoe …
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Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo
… include <em>The Tempest</em>, <em>She</em>, <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> and the journals of Christopher Columbus. Additionally, I address the effects of colonization on the indigenous associations of cannibalism in conjunction with the evolution of the wendigo. To illustrate this evolution, I …
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"""Addicted to Pleasures"": Representing Commodities of Empire and Consumerism in Eighteenth -Century English Culture"
… Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe..
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(IL)Legitimate Problems: Instances of Queer Familial Creation and the Reinforcement of Patriarchal Structure in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… through homosocial bonding in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron. Each of these three conservative texts almost entirely erases the role of the female in familial creation. They instead rely on patriarchal authority to legitimize …
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Defoe, Dissent, and Typology
… fundamentally underpins the narrative of Robinson Crusoe (1719), which systematically repudiates Biblical narratives. Rather than adhering to prefigurative Biblical patterns, the novel is built on a series of divergences, first personal and then political, from Scriptural models. Anchored …
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La trajectòria de Josep Vallverdú : entre l'activisme cultural i el talent literari
… two novels inspired by the adventure classics Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island. The two sequels share many features with his titles for younger readers, and analysis of these works opens the way to research concerning the boundaries between literature for different readerships in the …
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Dreaming in whispering groves: an inquiry into the reader's response to the book as a published physical object with reference to the rise of the eighteenth century novel, modern critical theory and the processes and technologies of production, transmission and reception
… eighteenth century novels over four centuries: Robinson Crusoe; The Adventures Of The Count de Vinevil; Pamela; David Simple; Amelia; Betsy Thoughtless; Evelina; The Monk and The Italian. I examine the relationship between the reader, the book-as-text and the book-as-object, approaching my topic …
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Casuistical Connections from Dunton to Defoe
… literature's casuistical qualities into Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, I investigate how Defoe's ties to casuistry are reflected in and perpetuated by Crusoe, illustrating how the novel becomes a medium for resolving cases of conscience. The novel as a genre is shown to be more than just a close …
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The explorer in English fiction
… into this category whether they belong, like Robinson Crusoe, Coral Island or Lord of the Flies, to the "desert island" tradition where castaways have exploration thrust upon them or present, as in the case of Moby Dick, The Lost World or Voss, ventures deliberately undertaken. There are …
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Risky Business: The Economy of Self-Management in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… for himself better standing in society. In Robinson Crusoe (1719) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) Defoe explicitly rejects the notion that one should take the safest path in life, forcing his protagonists to move through a world they know to be dangerous even when that choice seems …
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Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics
… <italic>Utopia</italic>, Daniel Defoe's <italic>Robinson Crusoe</italic>, Charles Darwin's <italic>The Origin of the Species</italic>, and Margaret Mead's <italic>Coming of Age in Samoa</italic>. I argue, on the one hand, that a dominant idea of the island based on negation (lack, dependency, …
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The Explorer in English Fiction
… this category whether they belong, like Rohinson Crusoe, Coral Island or Lord of the Flies, to the "desert island" tradition where castaways have exploration thrust upon them or present, as in the case of Moby Dick, The Lost World or Voss, ventures deliberately undertaken. There are frequent …