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  • The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    de Daniel Defoe ...
    For more than two hundred years, Robinson Crusoe’s story was encountered by generations of readers as one text in two parts, such that the second novel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, constituted a clear continuation of the protagonist’s eventful life. In the first part of this sequel, Crusoe returns to his island to advise and protect a diverse community of castaways, but in the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Rewriting Crusoe

    The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media

    de Robert Mayer, Rivka Swenson, Patrick A. Gill, Przemyslaw Uscinski, Frederick Burwick, Marta Pellerdi, Lora E. Geriguis, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Jennifer Preston Wilson, Ian Kinane, Daniel Cook ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Published in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel—who in 1731 penned his own island narrative—coined the term “Robinsonade” to characterize the genre bred by this classic, and today hundreds of examples can be identified worldwide ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Adapting the Eighteenth Century

    A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices

    de Sharon R. Harrow, Jason Gieger, Jason Gulya, Jeremy Brett, Jodi L. Wyett, Kathleen E. Urda, Kristen T. Saxton, Lindsay Doukopoulos, Maria Park Bobroff, Misty Krueger0, Nora Nachumi1, Peggy Schaller Elliott3, Rivka Swenson4, Robin Runia5, Servanne Woodward6, Ula Lukszo Klein7, Aleksondra Hultquist8, Anne Betty Weinshenker9, Cait Coker0, Catherine Ingrassia1, Chase Bringardner2, Emily C. Friedman3, Heather King4 ...
    The eighteenth century was a golden age of adaptation: classical epics were adapted to contemporaneous mock-epics, life writing to novels, novels to plays, and unauthorized sequels abounded. In our own time, cultural products of the long eighteenth century continue to be widely adapted. Early novels such as Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, the founding documents of the United States, Jane ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832

    de Rivka Swenson ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    John Locke asked, “since all things that exist are merely particulars, how come we by general terms?” Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 tells a story about aesthetics and politics that looks back to the 1603 Union of Crowns and James VI/I’s emigration from Edinburgh to London. Considering the emergence of British unionism alongside the literary rise ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

    'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'

    de Christopher D. Johnson, Paula R. Backscheider, Leslie A. Chilton, Robert A. Erikson, Susan K. Howard, Marta Kvande, James E. May, Melissa Mowry, Alexander Pettit, Charles E. Robinson, Mary Anne Schofield, Rivka Swenson, O M Brack Jr. ...
    New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which discuss ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

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  • Robinson Crusoe

    de Daniel Defoe, Robert Mayer ...
    Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps. ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Robinson Crusoe

    de Daniel Defoe ...
    'Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence' Simon ArmitageDaniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe**, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island.**The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • The Lexicographer's Dilemma

    The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park

    de Jack Lynch ...
    In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers--those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. Proper Words in Proper Places offers the first narrative history of these endeavors and shows clearly that what we now regard as the only "correct" way to speak emerged out of specific historical and social conditions over the course of centuries. As historian ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Robinson Crusoe

    de Daniel Defoe, James Kelly ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    de Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD

  • Literary Names

    Personal Names in English Literature

    de Alastair Fowler ...
    Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)

    de Daniel Defoe ...
    In "The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," originally published in 1719 and revised in subsequent editions, Daniel Defoe weaves a compelling narrative that explores themes of survival, individuality, and the human spirit's resilience. This early work of the novel form combines rich, descriptive prose with a clear moral philosophy, effectively placing Crusoe's journey against the backdrop of ... Leer más

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