Approaches to teaching Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
By: edited by Maximillian E. Novak and Carl Fisher.
Contributors: Novak, Maximillian E.; Fisher, Carl, 1958-
Series: Approaches to teaching world literature
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America; Modern Language Assn of Amer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Study and teaching.; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., in literature.; Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Publishing history and modern editions; title: Daniel Defoe : a brief biography; title: Critical reputation of Robinson Crusoe and its status as a novel; title: Scholarly biographies; title: Crusoe's fictional predecessors; title: Robinson Crusoe as international text : translation, circulation, and adaptation; title: Internet resources; title: Teaching Pilgrim's progress and Robinson Crusoe, or, From filthy mire to the glory of things / Robert Maniquis; title: Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's travels : some pedagogical frameworks / Richard Braverman; title: Robinson Crusoe's parodic intertextuality / Roxanne Kent-Frury and Gordon Sayre; title: Weber, Watt, and restraint : Robinson Crusoe and the critical tradition / Manuel Schonhorn; title: Myths of modern individualism : Defoe, Franklin, and Whitman / Geoffrey Sill; title: Crusoe among the travelers / Paula R. Backscheider; title: Thank God it's Friday: the construction of masculinity in Robinson Crusoe / George E. Haggerty; title: Robinson Crusoe and early eighteenth-century racial ideology / Roxann Wheeler; title: Teaching the Crusoe trilogy / Robert Markley; title: Robinson Crusoe as literary art / Timothy C. Blackburn; title: Messages in bottles : a comparative formal approach to castaway narratives / John Barberet; title: A semester on Crusoe's island / Matthew Wickman; title: The Robinsonade : an intercultural history of an idea / Carl Fisher; title: Reading the hermit's manuscript : the female American and female Robinsonades / Laura M. Stevens; title: Contexts for crusoe : colonial adventure and social disintegration / Everett Zimmerman; title: Teaching contemporary responses to Robinson Crusoe : Coetzee, Walcott, and others in a world literature survey / Charles W. Pollard; title: Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood / Robert Mayer; title: Teaching Robinson Crusoe in the introduction to literature course / Christina Sassi-Lehner; title: "Great labour and difficulty" : Robinson Crusoe as introduction to literary analysis / Anne Chandler; title: From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf : is there room for Robinson Crusoe in an English literature survey course? / Carl Fisher; title: Teaching Robinson Crusoe in a survey of the novel course / Maximillian E. Novak; title: Robinson Crusoe and children's literature / Anne Lundin; title: Accounting for the self : teaching Robinson Crusoe at a business school / Cheryl Nixon.