The female Crusoe
Subtitle: hybridity, trade and the eighteenth-century individual
By: C.M. Owen
Series: Costerus -- new ser., 182; Costerus -- new ser., v . 182.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9789042029644; 9789042029651
Subjects: English literature; Gender identity in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); History and criticism
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The critical fortunes of Robinson Crusoe; title: 2. Crusoe and the "Female Goddesses of Disorder"; title: 3. Credit, virginity and the cannibal-consumer; title: 4. The social contract and the widow; title: 5. The female castaway as translator; title: 6. The virginal individual; title: 7. Mothers and daughters of the new world; title: 8. Female sexual desire and independence; title: 9. Crusoe and modern woman.