Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years

The editors have gathered a collection of excellent essays by eminent scholars on the continuing relevance and power after three hundred years of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Informative and provocative, these essays provide an essential testimonial to the cultural and philosophical implications of Defoe’s classic novel through those centuries into our own. John Richetti, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe

This rich, wide-ranging volume brings into view the kinds of concerns and contexts that have informed the reception of Robinson Crusoe itself as well as countless remediations: gender, individualism, imperialism; pantomime, cinema, animal stories for children; more variously, Newton, tobacco, the sequel, and Crusoeian iconicity. This collection is valuable both for its deepening contribution to Defoe studies and its broadening relevance to a larger conversation about the genres of the Robinsonade. Rivka Swenson, author of Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603-1832

[An]outstanding collection of essays that demonstrates the enduring significance of literature’s most famous castaway. Restoration Journal

A highly entertaining and enlightening collection of contemporary essays. The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

Valuable to eighteenth-century scholars with an interest in Defoe, postcolonialism, and reception studies—and beyond. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats