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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... reality is not the main object of the writer , but rather that he hopes to make us see through them a larger and unseen reality beyond time and place . In Defoe's novels , on the other hand , although religious con- cerns are present ...
... reality is not the main object of the writer , but rather that he hopes to make us see through them a larger and unseen reality beyond time and place . In Defoe's novels , on the other hand , although religious con- cerns are present ...
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... reality had nothing in common with that of a believing Calvinist " disprove the positive importance of Defoe's dissenting background . For we can say of him , as of later novelists in the same tradition , such as Samuel Richardson ...
... reality had nothing in common with that of a believing Calvinist " disprove the positive importance of Defoe's dissenting background . For we can say of him , as of later novelists in the same tradition , such as Samuel Richardson ...
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... reality . " A fantasy of innocent gratification is put forward as being perfectly consistent with the reality principle . And Defoe's dogged defense of the new realism , naive though it may seem to later critical theory , exactly ...
... reality . " A fantasy of innocent gratification is put forward as being perfectly consistent with the reality principle . And Defoe's dogged defense of the new realism , naive though it may seem to later critical theory , exactly ...
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