Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe [electronic resource] /
O'Malley, A.author.
This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats, it reconsiders the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for three centuries.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Robinson Crusoe, the child, and the people -- Performing Crusoe and becoming Crusoes: the pedagogical uses of Robinson Crusoe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Crusoe comes home: Robinsonades and children's editions of Robinson Crusoe -- Poaching on Crusoe's island: popular reading and chapbook editions of Robinson Crusoe -- Animal spirits are everything!: Robinson Crusoe pantomimes and the child of nostalgia -- An island of toys: childhood and Robinson Crusoe consumer goods.
This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats, it reconsiders the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for three centuries.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Children's literature.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Children's Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.