Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9789004690455 |
| ISBN10: | 900469045X |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 110 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Weight: | 213 g |
| Language: | English |
| 745 |
Category:
Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth?Century English Robinsonade
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 6 February 2024
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Short description:
Exploring the metamorphoses of the body as a crucial aspect of the Robinsonade?s ideologies in the eighteenth century and beyond, Castaway Bodies sheds new light on this fascinating genre through a series of engaging focused readings.
Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
1 The Castaway?s Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives
2 Peter Longueville?s The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam
3 Robert Paltock?s Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation
4 The Female American (1767): a Failed Amazon
Coda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade
1 The Elemental Body in Michel Tournier?s Friday
2 Conquering the Body in Olga Tokarczuk?s ?The Island?
3 Re-Reading the Amazonian Myth in J. M. Coetzee?s Foe
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Introduction
1 The Castaway?s Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives
2 Peter Longueville?s The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam
3 Robert Paltock?s Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation
4 The Female American (1767): a Failed Amazon
Coda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade
1 The Elemental Body in Michel Tournier?s Friday
2 Conquering the Body in Olga Tokarczuk?s ?The Island?
3 Re-Reading the Amazonian Myth in J. M. Coetzee?s Foe
Bibliography
Index