edited by Andreas K. E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley
contributions by Glynis Ridley, Pat Rogers, Geoffrey Sill, Daniel Yu, Laura Schafer Brown, Jeremy Chow, Amy Hicks, Scott Pyrz, Andreas K. E. Mueller, Maximillian E. Novak and Benjamin Pauley
Bucknell University Press, 2021
Cloth: 978-1-68448-287-0 | eISBN: 978-1-68448-288-7 | Paper: 978-1-68448-286-3
Library of Congress Classification PR3403.Z5R5755 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.5

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontier myth, with Crusoe seen as an example of the self-sufficient adventurer and the archetypal colonizer and capitalist. Defoe’s original has been reimagined multiple times in legions of Robinsonade or castaway stories, but the Crusoe myth is far from spent. This wideranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about this most familiar of works, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever before.