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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.
Contents
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
