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Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth–Century English Robinsonade

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Exploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a crucial aspect of the genre’s ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of intriguing, yet often forgotten, novels: Peter Longueville’s The English Hermit (1727), Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins (1751) and The Female American (1767) by an anonymous author. The book shows that by rewriting the myths of the New Adam, the Androgyne and the Amazon, respectively, these novels went beyond, though not completely counter to, the politics of conquest and mastery that are typically associated with the Robinsonade. It argues that even if these narratives could still be read as colonial fantasies, they opened a space for more consistent rejections of the imperial agenda in contemporary castaway fiction.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-02-06
Mått155 x 235 x 7 mm
Vikt213 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMini-Monographs in Literary and Cultural Studies
Antal sidor110
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004690455

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AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction1 The Castaway’s Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives2 Peter Longueville’s The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam3 Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation4 The Female American (1767): a Failed AmazonCoda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade1 The Elemental Body in Michel Tournier’s Friday2 Conquering the Body in Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Island”3 Re-Reading the Amazonian Myth in J. M. Coetzee’s FoeBibliographyIndex