TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lipski,Jakub
TI  - Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth–Century English Robinsonade
T2  - Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
SN  - 9789004692916
AV  - PN3432 
U1  - 823/.609 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Robinsonades
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Jakub Lipski -- Introduction; Jakub Lipski -- Chapter 1 The Castaway's Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives; Jakub Lipski -- Chapter 2 Peter Longueville's The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam; Jakub Lipski -- Chapter 3 Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation; Jakub Lipski -- Chapter 4 The Female American (1767): a Failed Amazon; Jakub Lipski -- Coda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade; Jakub Lipski
N2  - Exploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a crucial aspect of the genre's ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of intriguing, yet often forgotten, novels: Peter Longueville's The English Hermit (1727), Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins (1751) and The Female American (1767) by an anonymous author. The book shows that by rewriting the myths of the New Adam, the Androgyne and the Amazon, respectively, these novels went beyond, though not completely counter to, the politics of conquest and mastery that are typically associated with the Robinsonade. It argues that even if these narratives could still be read as colonial fantasies, they opened a space for more consistent rejections of the imperial agenda in contemporary castaway fiction
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004692916
ER  -