Robinson Crusoe in Asia
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Beschreibung
This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book – The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (usually known simply as Robinson Crusoe) – to take in the far less well-known Farther Adventures and the almost unread Serious Reflections, beyond Defoe’s texts, to their re-writing and adaptation and beyond the Atlantic and South American context to an Asian and Pacific context. The essays consider both how Asia is represented in the books (in terms of politics, economics, religion), and how the book has been received, adapted, and taught, particularly in Asian contexts.
This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book – The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (usually known simply as Robinson Crusoe) – to take in the far less well-known Farther Adventures and the almost unread Serious Reflections, beyond Defoe’s texts, to their re-writing and adaptation and beyond the Atlantic and South American context to an Asian and Pacific context. The essays consider both how Asia is represented in the books (in terms of politics, economics, religion), and how the book has been received, adapted, and taught, particularly in Asian contexts.
Examines how Asia is represented in Robinson Crusoe and how the book has been received and taught in Asian contexts Highlights the original historical context of the novel (involving politics, finance, religion and geography) with a reception history Focuses on the book’s subsequent reworkings in specifically Asian contexts, and mutation with genres already developed in those traditions
Autor*in
Steve Clark
Themen in »Robinson Crusoe in Asia«
Robinson Crusoe in the Context of Travel Narrative Crusoe and Asian appropriation Robinson Crusoe and Early Enlightenment Piracy imperialism and travel writing in Crusoe Religious Toleration and Daniel Defoe the French Robinsonade and Defoe colonial representation and Robinson Crusoe modernization theory