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There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe’sRobinson 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.This wide-ranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about the 1719 publicationsThe Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson CrusoeandThe Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever before.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. A Note on the Text Introduction Andreas K. E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley PART ONE: Generic Revisions 1The Martian: Crusoe at the Final Frontier Glynis Ridley 2 Robinson’s Transgender Voyage: or, Burlesquing Crusoe Geoffrey Sill 3 Animal Crusoes: Anthropomorphism and Identification in Children’s Robinsonades Amy Hicks and Scott Pyrz PART TWO: Mind and Matter 4 Defoe and Newton: Modern Matter Laura Brown 5 Crusoe’s Ecstasies: Passivity, Resignation, and Tobacco Rites Daniel Yu 6 Taken by Storm:Robinson Crusoeand Aqueous Violence Jeremy Chow 7 lS~