A Spectacular Failure

Robinson Crusoe I, II, III
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3588-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 198, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Costerus New Series

This study examines Defoe’s three-volume Robinson Crusoe series in the light of the ‘banter’ style he developed as a pamphleteer. That heavily ironic style had brought him renown but also put him in the pillory. The present study explores for the first time Defoe’s complaint that readers and pirate abridgers misread his tale of the would-be trader Robinson Crusoe. Using Discourse Analysis and Relevance Theory to examine the early abridgements of Volume I and Defoe’s subsequent two volumes, this study argues that Defoe’s greatest success is also a peculiar failure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grand, Virginia La

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Reading Robinson Crusoe
Print Discourse in Defoe’s Day
A Long Battle over The Shortest-Way
Pirating Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe’s Textual Neighbors
What Defoe Lost to the Pirates
A World United by Trade
Serious Reflections
The End of the Debate
Bibliography
Index