Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

MAXIMILLIAN E. NOVAK is a professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives: Finding the Thing Itself and Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions.IRVING N. ROTHMAN was a professor of English at the University of Houston in Texas.   MANUEL SCHONHORN is the author of Defoe’s General History of the Pyrates and Defoe’s Politics.

• List of IllustrationsForewordHeadnoteIntroductionCritical ReputationSource in Defoe’s Writing and Other AuthorsContemporary Influences on the NovelThe Novel as Historical FictionPhilosophical and Social ThemesReligion as a Formal Structure and PracticeColonial and Post-Colonial ThemesLanguage, Style, and FictionSelected BibliographyWorks Consulted Before 1731Works Consulted After 1731Notes to HeadnoteThe Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson CrusoeThe PrefaceThe JournalBibliographic DescriptionsVariantsIntroduction to the List of VariantsList of VariantsList of Works ConsultedLine NotesAbout the Editors

"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe revitalizes a classic text published three centuries ago. The scholarship displayed here--more than a decade in the making--provides full, expert annotation and an exhaustive textual collation. This is clearly the definitive edition, one that specialists and libraries alike will want to acquire." - Anthony W. Lee (editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle) "Edited by a trio of distinguished Defoe scholars, the Stoke Newington edition of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a welcome addition to the field. With its learned and wide-ranging introduction, its dense contextual and interpretive annotations, and its extensive bibliographical and textual apparatus, the volume will serve as the basis for scholarship and criticism for decades to come." - Benjamin Pauley (Eastern Connecticut State University) " This book does all that you could ask of a thoroughly scholarly work, but won’t deter any enquirer; its introduction is thorough, judicious and wise, its bibliographical apparatus refrains from crowding the story and authentic illustrations are expertly annotated. Crisp footnotes, on the right page, are thorough, responsible and concise." (Times Literary Supplement) "Bucknell Press is to be commended for reviving this excellent project....A fine edition that scholars will want to acquire." (Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer) "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe revitalizes a classic text published three centuries ago. The scholarship displayed here--more than a decade in the making--provides full, expert annotation and an exhaustive textual collation. This is clearly the definitive edition, one that specialists and libraries alike will want to acquire." - Anthony W. Lee (editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle) "Edited by a trio of distinguished Defoe scholars, the Stoke Newington edition of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a welcome addition to the field. With its learned and wide-ranging introduction, its dense contextual and interpretive annotations, and its extensive bibliographical and textual apparatus, the volume will serve as the basis for scholarship and criticism for decades to come." - Benjamin Pauley (Eastern Connecticut State University) " This book does all that you could ask of a thoroughly scholarly work, but won’t deter any enquirer; its introduction is thorough, judicious and wise, its bibliographical apparatus refrains from crowding the story and authentic illustrations are expertly annotated. Crisp footnotes, on the right page, are thorough, responsible and concise." (Times Literary Supplement) "Bucknell Press is to be commended for reviving this excellent project....A fine edition that scholars will want to acquire." (Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer)