Robinson Crusoe

The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe is based on the Shakespeare Head Press reprint of the first edition copy in the British Museum, with the "errata" listed by Defoe’s publisher, William Taylor, incorporated into 　　Michael Shinagel has collated the reprint with all six authorized editions published by Taylor in 1719 to achieve a text that is faithful to Defo’ís original edition. Annotations assist the reader with obscure words and idioms, biblical references, and nautical terms.
　　"Contexts" helps the reader understand the novel’s historical and religious significance. Included are four contemporary accounts of marooned men, Defoe’s autobiographical passages on the novel’s allegorical foundation, and aspects of the Puritan emblematic tradition essential for understanding the novel’s religious aspects.
　　"Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Opinions" is a comprehensive study of early estimations by prominent literary and political figures, including Alexander Pope, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill.
　　"Twentieth-Century Criticism" is a collection of fourteen essays (five of them new to the Second Edition) that presents a variety of perspectives on Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Ian Watt, Eric Berne, Maximillian E. Novak, Frank Budgen, James Joyce, George A. Starr, J. Paul Hunter, James Sutherland, John J. Richetti, Leopold Damrosch, Jr., John Bender, Michael McKeon, and Carol Houlihan Flynn.
　　A Chronology of Defoe’s life and work and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

Book Description
"Robinson Crusoe" has been long established as a utopian novel and a study of isolation. This edition is based on the Shakespeare Head Press reprint of the first edition. A criticism section includes pieces by leading Defoe scholars.

Book Dimension:
length: (cm)21.2 　　　 　　　　　 　　 　 width:(cm)13

Preface
The Text of Robinson Crusoe
A Note on the Text
Contexts
　CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF MAROONED MEN
　William Dampier · [Rescue of a "Moskito Indian"
　Marooned over Three Years on Juan Fernandez　Island]
　Edward Cooke · [Rescue of Alexander Selkirk from
　Juan Fernandez Island]
　Woodes Rogers · [Account of Alexander Selkirk's Solitary Life on Juan Fernandez Island for Four Years and　Four Months]
　Richard Steele · [On Alexander Selkirk]
　AUTOBIOGRAPHY: ROBINSON CRUSOE AS AIJ RGORICAL HISTORY
　Daniel Defoe · [Preface to Volume II of Robinson Crusoe]· [Preface to Volume III of Robinson Crusoe] · Serious Observations
THE PURITAN EMBLEUATIC TRADmON
　J Paul Hunter · [The "Guide" Tradition]· [The "Providence" Tradition]· [Spiritual Biography]
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Opinions
　Charles Gildon · The Life and Strange Surprizing
Adventures of Mr D De F
Alexander Pope · [On Defoe]
Theophilus Cibber · [The Success of Robinson Crusoe]
Jean Jacques Rousseau · [A Treatise on Natural Education]
Samuel Johnson · [In Praise of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe]
　Hugh Blair · [Fictitious History]
　James Beattie · [The Morality of Robinson Crusoe]
　George Chalmers · [The Popularity Of Robinson Crusoe]
　[John Ballantyne] · [On Defoe]
　Samuel Taylor Coleridge · [Crusoe as a Representative of Humanity]
　Charles Lamb · [On Defoe's Novels]
　William Wordsworth · [Crusoe's Extraordinary Energy and Resource]
　Edgar Allan Poe · [Defoe's Faculty of Identification]
　William Hazlitt · [The Influence of Robinson Crusoe]
　Thomas De Quincey · [The Double Character of Defoe's Works]
　George Borrow · [Inspiration from Robinson Crusoe]
　Thomas Babington Macaulay · [On Defoe]
　Charles Dickens · [The Want of Emotion in Defoe]
　Karl Marx · [Crusoe and Capitalism]
　John Stuart Mill · [The Preeminence of Robinson Crusoe in Childhood]
　Leslie Stephen · [Defoe's Discovery of a New Art Form]
Twentieth-Century Criticism
　Virginia Woolf · Robinson Crusoe
　Ian Watt · Robinson Crusoe as a Myth
　Eric Berne · The Psychological Structure of Spac with Some Remarks on Robinson Crusoe
　Maximillian E. Novak · Robinson Crusoe and the State of Nature
　Frank Budgen · [On Joyce's Admiration of Defoe]
　James Joyce · Daniel Defoe
　George A. Starr · Robinson Crusoe and the Myth of Mammon
J. Paul Hunter · The "Occasion" of Robinson Crusoe
　James Sutherland · [On Robinson Crusoe]
　John J. Richetti · Robinson Crusoe: The Self as Master
　Leopold Damrosch, Jr. · Myth and Fiction in Robinson
Crusoe
　John Bender · The Novel and the Rise of the
Penitentiary: Robinson Crusoe
　Michael McKeon · Defoe and the Naturalization of
Desire: Robinson Crusoe
　Carol Houlihan Flynn · Consumptive Fictions:
Canmbalism and Defoe
　Daniel Defoe: A Chronology　Selected Bibliography