Jakub Lipski is University Professor of Anglophone Literatures, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He has published extensively on eighteenth-century English fiction and its afterlives. He is the editor of Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media (Bucknell University Press, 2020).

• 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

Jakub Lipski is University Professor of Anglophone Literatures, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He has published extensively on eighteenth-century English fiction and its afterlives. He is the editor of Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media (Bucknell University Press, 2020).

• 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

Jakub Lipski is University Professor of Anglophone Literatures, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He has published extensively on eighteenth-century English fiction and its afterlives. He is the editor of Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media (Bucknell University Press, 2020).

• 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