Daniel Defoe's Robinson CrusoeHarold Bloom A collection of seven critical essays on "Robinson Crusoe" arranged in chronological order of their original publication. |
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... original sin , " and becomes richer than his father was . Crusoe's " original sin " is really the dynamic tendency of capi- talism itself , whose aim is never merely to maintain the status quo , but to transform it incessantly . Leaving ...
... original sin , " and becomes richer than his father was . Crusoe's " original sin " is really the dynamic tendency of capi- talism itself , whose aim is never merely to maintain the status quo , but to transform it incessantly . Leaving ...
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... original mischoice . They do this first by repeating and confirming the substance of the original sin — that is , by obeying unruly inclination rather than reason and duty , and thus drawing what might have seemed a momentary lapse into ...
... original mischoice . They do this first by repeating and confirming the substance of the original sin — that is , by obeying unruly inclination rather than reason and duty , and thus drawing what might have seemed a momentary lapse into ...
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... original fall , and Puritan moralists regarded it as man's first and worst enemy . It was this sin which Herbert found basic , but ultimately self - redemptive , in " The Pulley . " It was this sin to which the concept of the calling ...
... original fall , and Puritan moralists regarded it as man's first and worst enemy . It was this sin which Herbert found basic , but ultimately self - redemptive , in " The Pulley . " It was this sin to which the concept of the calling ...
Contents
Robinson Crusoe | 5 |
Individualism and the Novel | 11 |
Crusoe and Spiritual Autobiography | 43 |
Copyright | |
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A. D. Hope action adventures afflictions alien allegorical becomes begins Brazil Bunyan called Calvinist cannibals character Christian condition conversion course critics Crusoe's island Daniel Defoe Defoe's heroes deliverance desire disobedience Dissenter divine dream economic specialisation effect Elizabeth Bishop England English experience fact fantasy father fiction footprint Friday Friday's Glorious Revolution God's heaven human Ian Watt imagination individual interpretation introspection isolation kind labour later Leopold Damrosch literary live man's means metaphors mind modern Moll Flanders moral narrative nature never novel novelist once original original sin pattern Paul Hunter Pilgrim's Progress political prodigal Providence providential punishment Puritan reader realism reality reason religious repentance Robinson Crusoe savage secret sense Serious Reflections ship shipwreck significance sinner sins social society solitary solitude soul sovereignty Spiritual Autobiography story strange Stuart suggests tendency things thought tion tradition turn University Virginia Woolf voyage word Xury