The fortress of American solitude
Subtitle: Robinson Crusoe and antebellum culture
By: Shawn Thomson.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838642177
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel, -- 1661?-1731 -- Influence; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Castaways in literature; Young men in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Robinson Crusoe as a topos of masculinity in nineteenth-century America; title: A remembrance of things Typee: Herman Melville and the making of the man who slept with cannibals; title: Outside the fortress of solitude: castaway pathos in Frederick Douglass's My bondage and my freedom and Herman Melville's "Bartleby, The scriverner" and "Benito Cereno"; title: Failed Crusoes: competing models of manhood in Herman Melville's Pierre and Elizabeth Stoddard's Two men; title: Crusoe in the Yankee nation: labor, class, and domesticity in James Fenimore Cooper's The crater and George Payson's Golden dreams and leaden realities; title: Female Crusoes, lady castaways, and Dickinson's castaway poetics: Victorian women in a masculine terrain; title: Conclusion: the failing Robinson Crusoe: Twain and the nostalgia for antebellum boyhood (1864-85).