The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

MAXIMILLIAN E. NOVAK is a professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives: Finding the Thing Itself and Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions. IRVING N. ROTHMAN was a professor of English at the University of Houston in Texas.    MANUEL SCHONHORN is the author of Defoe’s General History of the Pyrates and Defoe’s Politics.

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Headnote

            Introduction

            Critical Reputation

            Source in Defoe’s Writing and Other Authors

            Contemporary Influences on the Novel

            The Novel as Historical Fiction

            Philosophical and Social Themes

            Religion as a Formal Structure and Practice

            Colonial and Post-Colonial Themes

            Language, Style, and Fiction

            Selected Bibliography

            Works Consulted Before 1731

            Works Consulted After 1731

            Notes to Headnote

The Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

            The Preface

            The Journal

Bibliographic Descriptions

Variants

            Introduction to the List of Variants

            List of Variants

List of Works Consulted

Line Notes

About the Editors