Crusoes and other castaways in modern French literature
Subtitle: solitary adventures
By: Joseph Acquisto
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611494068; 9781611494075
Subjects: French literature; Castaways in literature; History and criciticism; French Adventure stories; History and criticism; Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character); Adventure and adventurers in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Children of Rousseau: castaways and solitaries in the early nineteenth-century novel; title: What is the moral of this story?: the popular Robinsonnade in the nineteenth century; title: Toward the inner solitary adventure: reading, adventure, solitude; title: Turning inward: the Robinson of the poets; title: Adventure in new territory: the solitary adventure novel 1921-1972; title: Children of Tournier: the late twentieth century and beyond.