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Castaway Bodies in the EighteenthâCentury English Robinsonade
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Exploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a crucial aspect of the genreâs ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of intriguing, yet often forgotten, novels: Peter Longuevilleâs The English Hermit (1727), Robert Paltockâs Peter Wilkins (1751) and The Female American (1767) by an anonymous author. The book shows that by rewriting the myths of the New Adam, the Androgyne and the Amazon, respectively, these novels went beyond, though not completely counter to, the politics of conquest and mastery that are typically associated with the Robinsonade. It argues that even if these narratives could still be read as colonial fantasies, they opened a space for more consistent rejections of the imperial agenda in contemporary castaway fiction.
Jakub Lipski is University Professor of Anglophone Literatures, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He has published extensively on eighteenth-century English fiction and its afterlives. He is the editor of Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media (Bucknell University Press, 2020).
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
1 The Castawayâs Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives
2 Peter Longuevilleâs The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam
3 Robert Paltockâs Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation
4 The Female American (1767): a Failed Amazon
Coda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade
â1 The Elemental Body in Michel Tournierâs Friday
â2 Conquering the Body in Olga Tokarczukâs âThe Islandâ
â3 Re-Reading the Amazonian Myth in J. M. Coetzeeâs Foe
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Introduction
1 The Castawayâs Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives
2 Peter Longuevilleâs The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam
3 Robert Paltockâs Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation
4 The Female American (1767): a Failed Amazon
Coda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade
â1 The Elemental Body in Michel Tournierâs Friday
â2 Conquering the Body in Olga Tokarczukâs âThe Islandâ
â3 Re-Reading the Amazonian Myth in J. M. Coetzeeâs Foe
Bibliography
Index
Eighteenth-century studies scholars, comparative literature scholars, graduate and postgraduate students of English and comparative literature