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Now at ninety-three volumes, this popular MLA series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. In these essays, experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.

Preface to the Series

ix

Introduction

xi

PART ONE: MATERIALS

Maximillian E. Novak

Carl Fisher

Publishing History and Modern Editions

3

(2)

Daniel Defoe: A Brief Biography

5

(2)

The Critical Reputation of Robinson Crusoe and Its Status as a Novel

7

(6)

Scholarly Biographies

13

(1)

Crusoe's Fictional Predecessors

14

(2)

Robinson Crusoe as International Text: Translation, Circulation, and Adaptation

16

(3)

Internet Resources

19

(6)

PART TWO: APPROACHES

Defoe and the History of English Narrative

Teaching The Pilgrim's Progress and Robinson Crusoe; or, From Filthy Mire to the Glory of Things

25

(12)

Robert Maniquis

Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels: Some Pedagogical Frameworks

37

(11)

Richard Braverman

Robinson Crusoe's Parodic Intertextuality

48

(7)

Roxanne Kent-Drury

Gordon Sayre

Weber, Watt, and Restraint: Robinson Crusoe and the Critical Tradition

55

(6)

Manuel Schonhorn

Intellectual and Ideological Contexts

Myths of Modern Individualism: Defoe, Franklin, and Whitman

61

(8)

Geoffrey Sill

Crusoe among the Travelers

69

(9)

Paula R. Backscheider

Thank God It's Friday: The Construction of Masculinity in Robinson Crusoe

78

(10)

George E. Haggerty

Robinson Crusoe and Early-Eighteenth-Century Racial Ideology

88

(8)

Roxann Wheeler

Teaching the Crusoe Trilogy

96

(9)

Robert Markley

Formal and Thematic Approaches

Robinson Crusoe as Literary Art

105

(6)

Timothy C. Blackburn

Messages in Bottles: A Comparative Formal Approach to Castaway Narratives

111

(11)

John Barberet

A Semester on Crusoe's Island

122

(7)

Matthew Wickman

Comparative and Intertextual Approaches

The Robinsonade: An Intercultural History of an Idea

129

(11)

Carl Fisher

Reading the Hermit's Manuscript: The Female American and Female Robinsonades

140

(12)

Laura M. Stevens

Contexts for Crusoe: Colonial Adventure and Social Disintegration

152

(9)

Everett Zimmerman

Teaching Contemporary Responses to Robinson Crusoe: Coetzee, Walcott, and Others in a World Literature Survey

161

(8)

Charles W. Pollard

Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood

169

(6)

Robert Mayer

Classroom Contexts for Robinson Crusoe

Teaching Robinson Crusoe in the Introduction to Literature Course

175

(5)

Christina Sassi-Lehner

``Great Labour and Difficulty'': Robinson Crusoe as Introduction to Literary Analysis

180

(6)

Anne Chandler

From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf: Is There Room for Robinson Crusoe in an English Literature Survey Course?

186

(5)

Carl Fisher

Teaching Robinson Crusoe in a Survey of the Novel Course

191

(7)

Maximillian E. Novak

Robinson Crusoe and Children's Literature

198

(9)

Anne Lundin

Accounting for the Self: Teaching Robinson Crusoe at a Business School

207

(10)

Cheryl L. Nixon

Notes on Contributors

217

(4)

Survey Participants

221

(2)

Works Cited

223

(16)

Index of Names

239

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