Cover -- Robinson Crusoe: Myths and Metamorphoses -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Unwrapping Crusoe: Retrospective and Prospective Views -- Part I Text and Context -- 2 Robinson Crusoe's...
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Cover -- Robinson Crusoe: Myths and Metamorphoses -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Unwrapping Crusoe: Retrospective and Prospective Views -- Part I Text and Context -- 2 Robinson Crusoe's Eighteenth-Century Contexts -- 3 Crusoe' s Women: Or, the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- 4 Crusoe, Cannibalism and Empire -- 5 Crusoe in the South Seas: Beachcombers, Missionaries and the Myth of the Castaway -- 6 Serving God or Mammon? Echoes from Hayy Ibn Yaqzan and Sinbad the Sailor in Robinson Crusoe -- 7 Narcissus and Friday: From Classical to Anthropological Myth -- 8 Caliban, Friday and their Masters -- Part II Resonances -- 9 Charles Guilbert de Pixerecourt's -- 10 Female Castaways -- 11 Resisting Robinson Crusoe in Dechanel's Film -- 12 The Robinson Myth in Jean-Richard Bloch's Le Robinson juif -- Part III Subversions -- 13 Myth as Microscope: Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique -- 14 'Skilful in the usury of time': Michel Tournier and the Critique of Economism -- 15 Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique: Toumier, Seduction and Paternity -- 16 'Between me and thee is a great gulf fixed': The Crusoe Presence in Walcott's Early Poetry -- 17 'With Crusoe the slave and Friday the boss': Derek Walcott's -- 18 The Ulyssean Crusoe and the Quest for Redemption in J. M. Coetzee's Foe and Derek Walcott's Omeros -- 19 Foe: Metafiction and the Discourse of Power -- 20 Daniel Defoe as Character: Subversion of the Myths of Robinson Crusoe and of the Author -- Part IV Introversions -- 21 'In Contemplation of my Deliverance': Robinson Crusoe and Pincher Martin -- 22 'Insulaire que tu es. lIe -': Valery, the Robinson Crusoe of the Mind -- Postface: Robinson(g) -- A Japanese Robinson -- Conclusion -- Index.
