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Tables of Contents for Robinson Crusoe
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
The Text of Robinson Crusoe
1
226
A Note on the Text
221
6
Contexts
227
30
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF MAROONED MEN
227
12
William Dampier
[Rescue of a "Moskito Indian" Marooned over Three Years on Juan Fernandez Island]
227
3
Edward Cooke
[Rescue of Alexander Selkirk from Juan Fernandez Island]
230
1
Woodes Rogers
[Account of Alexander Selkirk's Solitary Life on Juan Fernandez Island for Four Years and Four Months]
230
5
Richard Steele
[On Alexander Selkirk]
235
4
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: ROBINSON CRUSOE AS ALLEGORICAL HISTORY
239
7
Daniel Defoe
[Preface to Volume II of Robinson Crusoe]
239
1
[Preface to Volume III of Robinson Crusoe]
240
3
Serious Observations
243
3
THE PURITAN EMBLEMATIC TRADITION
246
11
J. Paul Hunter
[The "Guide" Tradition]
246
4
[The "Providence" Tradition]
250
1
[Spiritual Biography]
251
6
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Opinions
257
26
Charles Gildon
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. D-- De F--
257
4
Alexander Pope
[On Defoe]
261
1
Theophilus Cibber
[The Success of Robinson Crusoe]
261
1
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[A Treatise on Natural Education]
262
2
Samuel Johnson
[In Praise of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe]
264
1
Hugh Blair
[Fictitious History]
264
1
James Beattie
[The Morality of Robinson Crusoe]
265
1
George Chalmers
[The Popularity of Robinson Crusoe]
265
1
John Ballantyne
[On Defoe]
266
1
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[Crusoe as a Representative of Humanity]
267
2
Charles Lamb
[On Defoe's Novels]
269
1
William Wordsworth
[Crusoe's Extraordinary Energy and Resource]
270
1
Edgar Allan Poe
[Defoe's Faculty of Identification]
270
1
William Hazlitt
[The Influence of Robinson Crusoe]
271
1
Thomas De Quincey
[The Double Character of Defoe's Works]
272
1
George Borrow
[Inspiration from Robinson Crusoe]
272
1
Thomas Babington Macaulay
[On Defoe]
273
1
Charles Dickens
[The Want of Emotion in Defoe]
274
1
Karl Marx
[Crusoe and Capitalism]
274
3
John Stuart Mill
[The Preeminence of Robinson Crusoe in Childhood]
277
1
Leslie Stephen
[Defoe's Discovery of a New Art Form]
277
6
Twentieth-Century Criticism
283
150
Virginia Woolf
Robinson Crusoe
283
3
Ian Watt
Robinson Crusoe as a Myth
288
18
Eric Berne
The Psychological Structure of Space with Some Remarks on Robinson Crusoe
306
3
Maximillian E. Novak
Robinson Crusoe and the State of Nature
309
11
Frank Budgen
[On Joyce's Admiration of Defoe]
320
1
James Joyce
Daniel Defoe
320
3
George A. Starr
Robinson Crusoe and the Myth of Mammon
323
8
J. Paul Hunter
The "Occasion" of Robinson Crusoe
331
13
James Sutherland
[On Robinson Crusoe]
344
13
John J. Richetti
Robinson Crusoe: The Self as Master
357
16
Leopold Damrosch, Jr.
Myth and Fiction in Robinson Crusoe
373
17
John Bender
The Novel and the Rise of the Penitentiary: Robinson Crusoe
390
12
Michael McKeon
Defoe and the Naturalization of Desire: Robinson Crusoe
402
21
Carol Houlihan Flynn
Consumptive Fictions: Cannibalism and Defoe
423
10
Daniel Defoe: A Chronology
433
2
Selected Bibliography
435